Assigning permissions to the Launchpad parent directories on the AIX platform

On the AIX® platform, you must assign read and execute permissions to the parent directories of the Launchpad.

On the AIX platform, the downloadable version of launchpad is shipped as a .tar file. You download the .tar file to a directory such as /home/cdImage, and then extract the .tar file by executing tar xvf monitor.tar. The parent directory into which the .tar file is extracted must have read and execute permission for all users. In this example, both /home and /home/cdImage directories must have those permissions. The command to set the permissions is chmod 755. If the permissions are not set on the parent directories, the Launchpad will not be able to write to the Repository database. In the launchpad-monitor.log, you will see "repos command finished rc=126".


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