This technote explains how to resolve the error, cleartool Error: Failed to record hostname, when trying to register or create an IBM Rational ClearCase VOB or View on Microsoft Windows, UNIX or Linux.
Attempts to register or create a VOB or view results in the following error:
cleartool Error: Failed to record hostname in storage directory
VOB Example:
D:\>cleartool register –vob \\Hostname\ClearCaseStorage\CCVobs\vob1.vbs
cleartool Error: Failed to record hostname “Hostname” in storage directory “\\Hostname\ClearCaseStorage\Ccvobs\vob1.vbs”. Check that root or the ClearCase administrators group has permission to write to this directory
View Examples:
View Tool
Error creating view - '<view-tag>'
Fail to record hostname " HOST " in storage directory "<path to view storage>. Check that root or the ClearCase administrators group has permission to write to this directory.
Unable to create view "<global path to view storage>".
You may also see errors like the following in the view server log:
2008-08-22T14:15:43-04:00 admin_server(6036): Error: admin_server.exe(6036): Error: Can't determine if the file system on which "C:\ccviews\svc-us-deriv_reg_view.vws" lives supports acls.
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