Synergy connection problems

Symptoms:

$ ccm start -d /data/synergydb/mydb -h myhost -m -nogui -rc
Starting Telelogic Synergy...
Telelogic Synergy server starting on host myhost, using database /data/synergydb/mydb
Warning: Engine startup failed.
Warning: Telelogic Synergy startup failed.

cat ~/ccm_eng.log
Permission denied.
Permission denied.

cat ~/ccm_ui.log
02/15 07:32:58 Telelogic Synergy server starting on host myhost, using database /data/synergydb/mydb
02/15 07:32:59 Warning: Engine startup failed.

What gives? - Wrong syntax of the following line:

WRONG: engine_daemon=TRUE;

RIGHT: engine_daemon = TRUE

(remove semicolon, spaces do not matter).