Mark, On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 9:01 PM Mark Murdock <m...@celebrationradio.com> wrote:
> We just put a Rivendell client on the air today, and things are mostly > going well. However, the pypad_writefile instance for now play info is not > writing to /home/rd/NowPlay. The error log says permission is denied. > I have run into this as well while helping someone else move from 2.x to 3.x... > This works fine if we play out from the server, > I am surprised to hear this, we were on a standalone machine (I think, I did not do the initial setup but it was a single machine system.) > but not from the on air client. How do I give the on air machine > permission to write to this directory? > The question is not exactly this. The simple, dangerous answer is: su chmod 777 /home/rd or sudo chmod 777 /home/rd Don't do either one of these. The other simple answer is to write the file somewhere where "you" do have permissions, I chose /tmp/NowPlay (to match your original...) Neither of these is satisfying. The question I have is: What is(are) the best way(s) to solve this permission issue. What is the best practice in this situation? I also considered making a directory called: /home/rdreports and then chmod 777 /home/rdreports and then write to /home/rdreports/NowPlay That would give about the same security as the /tmp option. Looking at the file now I see something like: -rw-r--r--. 1 pypad pypad 25 Feb 4 06:12 /tmp/NowPlay also: grep pypad /etc/passwd pypad:x:151:151:Rivendell PyPAD scripts:/dev/null:/bin/false grep pypad /etc/group pypad:x:151: so slightly better security with the /etc/rdreports idea would be: chmod 770 /home/rdreports chown pypad:pypad /home/rdreports and then add rd to the pypad group. > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark Murdock > > KAMB > > 90 E. 16th St. > > Merced, CA 95340 > > (209) 723-1015 > > m...@celebrationradio.com > > Website <https://celebrationradio.com/> > > > all the best, drew -- Enjoy the *Paradise Island Cam* playing *Bahamian Or Nuttin* - https://www.paradiseislandcam.com/
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