Hi Can we adopt a new rule: a qserv installation should never rely on directories outside of qserv install directory. I am talking about not relying on directories such as /dev, /tmp, /var, /log, etc... I know there was a lot of effort to move things off /tmp, /var, /log, but I noticed we still rely at least on /dev, e.g., our two "production" installations on lsst-db2 are both sharing: scratch_path = /dev/shm/qserv This is not always easy to spot, I happened to notice because /dev/shm/qserv is owned by Douglas and I can't write to it, so my qserv fails. I wonder if any bad things might happen if two installations share scratch_path... Douglas, you might want to fix that. Jacek ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the QSERV-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=QSERV-L&A=1