I have an opensource Maven project which I downloaded from GitHub.The project is called ElasticInbox (https://github.com/elasticinbox/elasticinbox.git).
When I try to build the project I get the following error:
ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender[FILE] - openFile(/var/log/elasticinbox/elasticinbox.log,true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/log/elasticinbox/elasticinbox.log (Permission denied)
at java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/log/elasticinbox/elasticinbox.log (Permission denied)
at at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
at at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
at at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:213)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.recovery.ResilientFileOutputStream.<init>(ResilientFileOutputStream.java:28)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender.openFile(FileAppender.java:149)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender.start(FileAppender.java:108)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender.start(RollingFileAppender.java:72)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction.end(AppenderAction.java:96)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.callEndAction(Interpreter.java:318)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.endElement(Interpreter.java:197)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter.endElement(Interpreter.java:183)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.EventPlayer.play(EventPlayer.java:62)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:157)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:143)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:106)
at at ch.qos.logback.core.joran.GenericConfigurator.doConfigure(GenericConfigurator.java:56)
at at ch.qos.logback.classic.util.ContextInitializer.configureByResource(ContextInitializer.java:75)
at at ch.qos.logback.classic.util.ContextInitializer.autoConfig(ContextInitializer.java:148)
at at org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.init(StaticLoggerBinder.java:85)
at at org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.<clinit>(StaticLoggerBinder.java:55)
at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.bind(LoggerFactory.java:128)
at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.performInitialization(LoggerFactory.java:107)
at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(LoggerFactory.java:295)
at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:269)
at at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:281)
at at org.ops4j.pax.web.extender.war.internal.Activator.<clinit>(Activator.java:58)
at at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.loadBundleActivator(AbstractBundle.java:151)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:751)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:370)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.resume(AbstractBundle.java:374)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.Framework.resumeBundle(Framework.java:1067)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:561)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.resumeBundles(StartLevelManager.java:546)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.incFWSL(StartLevelManager.java:459)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.doSetStartLevel(StartLevelManager.java:243)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.StartLevelManager.dispatchEvent(StartLevelManager.java:440)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:227)
at at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:337)
Initially the error was file not found then I manually created this log file via the terminal. As far as I understand, this is not the project code which is executing. It seems to be the maven build which is throwing this error and I a not able to proceed further.
Can someone please help me to resolve this issue?
Because the access to your file location is not shared with others. Hence you are getting permission denied issue.
In logback.xml file, https://github.com/elasticinbox/elasticinbox/blob/master/config/logback.xml
the location of log file has been specified. Try changing its path to your user dir, it should work.