Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 07:58 +1100, Laurence Huizinga wrote:
>> However, just to try freevo out I get the following errors:
> [...]
>> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/freevo/main-1000.log'
>>
>> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/freevo/main-1000.log'
>>
>
> By default freevo tries to write to /var/log/freevo, so you need to make
> sure that this directory exists and that the user you're running freevo
> as can write to it.
>
> (I never did like thsi default.{)
Exactly what happens is:
If the environment variable FREEVO_LOGDIR is set then this is used
It will try to create and use /var/log/freevo, and if running as
non-root this will fail
Finally, it will try to create ${HOME}/.freevo/log.
I think that the problem is that root created the /var/log/freevo
directory but didn't change the permissions on the directory to 1777. So
the directory exists but is not writeable by the non-root user. A "chmod
1777 /var/log/freevo" will fix this.
The following, I'll add to svn for the next release.
Index: src/config.py
===================================================================
--- src/config.py (revision 11224)
+++ src/config.py (working copy)
@@ -353,12 +353,14 @@
try:
print 'trying "%s"...' % (freevo_dirname)
os.makedirs(freevo_dirname)
+ os.chmod(freevo_dirname, 01777)
except OSError:
freevo_dirname = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'],
'.freevo', private_dir)
if not os.path.isdir(freevo_dirname):
try:
print 'trying "%s"...' % (freevo_dirname)
os.makedirs(freevo_dirname)
+ os.chmod(freevo_dirname, 0755)
except OSError, e:
print 'Warning: %s does not exists and can\'t be
created' % freevo_dirname
print 'Please create this directory as root and set
permissions for the'
Duncan
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