panic: Error while trying to create dir if missing: mkdir /var/hyperledger: permission denied

Question

I'm following this guide https://github.com/ITPeople-Blockchain/auction after the make native command, I execute the next command ./orderer but I received the following error:

panic: Error while trying to create dir if missing: mkdir /var/hyperledger: permission denied

shell log:

2017-07-06 14:50:11.556 CEST [orderer/main] main -> INFO 001 Starting orderer: Version: 1.0.0-rc2-snapshot-a0afe19a Go version: go1.8.3 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 panic: Error while trying to create dir if missing: mkdir /var/hyperledger: permission denied

goroutine 1 [running]: github.com/hyperledger/fabric/common/ledger/util/leveldbhelper.(*DB).Open(0xc42034b480) /home/user/work/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/common/ledger/util/leveldbhelper/leveldb_helper.go:84 +0x315 github.com/hyperledger/fabric/common/ledger/util/leveldbhelper.NewProvider(0xc4203583c0, 0xc4203583c0) /home/user/work/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/common/ledger/util/leveldbhelper/leveldb_provider.go:40 +0x11b github.com/hyperledger/fabric/common/ledger/blkstorage/fsblkstorage.NewProvider(0xc420355da0, 0xc420355dc0, 0xc4203583a0, 0xc420167c50) /home/user/work/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/common/ledger/blkstorage/fsblkstorage/fs_blockstore_provider.go:34 +0x85 github.com/hyperledger/fabric/orderer/ledger/file.New(0xc4201ee480, 0x23, 0x2, 0x2) /home/user/work/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/orderer/ledger/file/factory.go:75 +0xf7 main.createLedgerFactory(0xc4201c06c0, 0x870ad0, 0xc4200ec8c0, 0xc42033e6c0, 0x0) /home/user/work/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/orderer/util.go:42 +0x2c3 main.initializeMultiChainManager(0xc4201c06c0, 0x11a18a0, 0x11f2e40, 0xc4201d45d0, 0x1) /home/user/work/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/orderer/main.go:207 +0x43 main.main() /home/user/work/src/github.com/hyperledger/fabric/orderer/main.go:75 +0x37f

Answer 1

try:

sudo mkdir -p /var/hyperledger/production
sudo chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) /var/hyperledger

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