<div dir="ltr">The flags in that command suggest it belongs on the linux command line. If you do 'which tsdb' at the linux prompt, what do you see?<div><br></div><div>Emily</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Alexander Sugar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sugara@uw.edu" target="_blank">sugara@uw.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mr. Oepen,<br>
<br>
Please excuse my computer illiteracy. From where should I be<br>
introducing the<br>
<br>
tsdb -home <path> -verify<br>
<br>
command?<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
Alec<br>
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On 9/8/14, Stephan Oepen <<a href="mailto:oe@ifi.uio.no">oe@ifi.uio.no</a>> wrote:<br>
> colleagues,<br>
><br>
>> The problem seems to be with [incr tsdb()]'s ability to "see" certain<br>
>> directories on the UbuntuLKB distro.<br>
><br>
> i only have partial context here, but it sounds as if (a) there is a<br>
> valid skeleton, and (b) running ‘File|Create’ on it shows the<br>
> ‘creating empty data file’ messages as it should.<br>
><br>
> the ‘no history file’ message should not be a problem.<br>
><br>
> i would recommend inspecting the directory corresponding to the [incr<br>
> tsdb()] Database Root, where there should be a new sub-directory after<br>
> the ‘File|Create’ action.<br>
><br>
> [incr tsdb()] will try validating that directory (i.e. the one<br>
> containing the ‘relations’ and ‘item’ files, together will all those<br>
> empty ones) using a command like the following:<br>
><br>
> tsdb -home <path> -verify<br>
><br>
> here, <path> should correspond to the above sub-directory, and the<br>
> ‘-verify’ should either return with a zero exit(3) code (see ‘man<br>
> true’), or it should print diagnostic messages that i hope will help<br>
> resolve the problem.<br>
><br>
> this all is relatively standard [incr tsdb()] territory that has been<br>
> unchanged for a decade or more. thus, i am inclined to suspect that<br>
> some idiosyncrasy of the local setup is at the root of this problem.<br>
><br>
> best, oe<br>
><br>
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