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Problem Note 19978: Specifying LOGPARM system option may generate INSUFFICIENT AUTHORIZATION messages
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If you specify the LOGPARM system option, you may encounter messages like:
ERROR: Insufficient authorization to access <path>.log.
SAS® attempts to open files to check for existence and/or last modification date, in the case of OPEN=REPLACEOLD. Errors are generated when users do not have read access to existing log files. This situation may also prevent date and time directives specified in the LOG system option from being resolved properly.
To prevent this problem, ensure that all users have at least read access to all files in the directory in which the SAS logs are written.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9 TS M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| z/OS | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| AIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||