digitizing problems

[Malcolm Williamson]

On 12 May 1997, Michael Yekta wrote:

> Hello Grass Users,
> 
> I tried to digitize on my Calcomp 9100 using GRASS today and got the following
> error when I went to select a digitizer:
> 
> ERROR - Could not lock digitizer.
> Check for existance of /usr/gis/locks .
> Contact your GRASS system administrator
> 
> I've been using GRASS with this digitizer for several years and have never seen
> this error message before.
> 
> I've checked all the connections and they seem to be ok.
> I'm using GRASS4.0 on an IBM RS6000 running AIX 3.23. 
> 
> Any idea how to fix this? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Check permissions under /usr/gis/locks and under 
/usr/gis/locks/<your_machine_name>. They should be globally read and 
writable.

	-Malcolm

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