Permission issue on /var/lib/pbench-agent/pbench.log on put-shim

[riya-17]

when pbench-results-push command on pbench-agent is called from put-shim on the pbench-server it is unable to create, access pbench-agent directory and pbench.log file respectively. File owner is root.root.

rhel-riya-put-shim pbench-server-p[44967]: pbench-server-put-shim2023-02-20T15:44:01.450959 ERROR 44967 139805258172224 pbench-server-put-shim.process_tb process_tb 112 -- run-2023-02-20T15:44:01-UTC: Unexpected Error while running Agent's 'pbench-result-push' command: b"[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/pbench-agent'\n"

[webbnh]

It looks like pbench_run is set to /var/lib/pbench-agent in /opt/pbench-agent/config/pbench-agent-default.cfg. You could try overriding that in your pbench-agent.cfg file and pointing it to a directory where the Agent can write.

Unfortunately, there seem to be lots of places where /var/lib/pbench-agent is hard-coded, so I don't know whether changing the configuration will get to the spot where you need it, but it's worth a try.

On the other hand, since we control the system where put-shim is going to run, at least for now you could manually create this directory and give it the appropriate permissions for our use.