# Cap deployment issue

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cap-deployment-issue/206714>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [May 8, 2011, 8:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cap-deployment-issue/206714 "2011-05-08T08:01:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2011, 8:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cap-deployment-issue/206714/1 "2011-05-08T08:01:23Z")

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Hi ,  
I want to Capistrano deployment , it is urgent to me . While i  
cap deply:update it causes the error . Let me know any one solution  
for this problem .

## Error:

$ cap deploy:update  
After some steps execute success fully, i got this error.  
servers: [“172.20.1.33”]  
[172.20.1.33] executing command  
\*\* [out :: 172.20.1.33] ln:  
\*\* [out :: 172.20.1.33] creating symbolic link  
`/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/pras  
ad/twitter\_app/releases/20110508045420/log’  
\*\* [out :: 172.20.1.33] : Operation not permitted  
\*\* [out :: 172.20.1.33]  
command finished in 109ms  
failed: “sh -c ‘rm -rf  
/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/prasad/twitter\_app/releases/20  
110508045420/log  
/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/prasad/twitter\_app/releases/20110508  
045420/public/system  
/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/prasad/twitter\_app/releases/2011  
0508045420/tmp/pids &&\\n mkdir -p  
/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/prasad/twitt  
er\_app/releases/20110508045420/public &&\\n mkdir -p  
/media/disk-1/ror\_pro  
jects/prasad/twitter\_app/releases/20110508045420/tmp &&\\n ln -s  
/media/di  
sk-1/ror\_projects/prasad/twitter\_app/shared/log  
/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/prasa  
d/twitter\_app/releases/20110508045420/log &&\\n ln -s  
/media/disk-1/ror\_pr  
ojects/prasad/twitter\_app/shared/system  
/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/prasad/twitte  
r\_app/releases/20110508045420/public/system &&\\n ln -s  
/media/disk-1/ror\_  
projects/prasad/twitter\_app/shared/pids  
/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/prasad/twitte  
r\_app/releases/20110508045420/tmp/pids’” on 172.20.1.33

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![prasad\_nyros](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@prasad\_nyros](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prasad_nyros)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cap-deployment-issue/206714/2 "2011-05-28T19:56:46Z")

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You cannot create a symbolic link to a subdirectory of a directory that  
does not exist. Does the directory  
“/media/disk-1/ror\_projects/prasad/twitter\_app/shared” exist?