how to solve permission problems with hellanzb?

[musta78]

Ok. This is what i get when i try to start hellanzb on my ubuntu 8.04.2 server.

magnus@server1:~$ hellanzb.py
An unexpected problem occurred, exiting: IOError'>: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/tmp/hellanzb.log'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Hellanzb/Core.py", line 554, in main
init(options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Hellanzb/Core.py", line 334, in init
Hellanzb.Logging.initLogFile(logFile = logFile, debugLogFile = debugLogFile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Hellanzb/Logging.py", line 577, in initLogFile
backupCount = backupCount)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 109, in __init__
BaseRotatingHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 61, in __init__
logging.FileHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 770, in __init__
stream = open(filename, mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/tmp/hellanzb.log'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hellanzb.py", line 20, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Hellanzb/Core.py", line 554, in main
init(options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Hellanzb/Core.py", line 334, in init
Hellanzb.Logging.initLogFile(logFile = logFile, debugLogFile = debugLogFile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Hellanzb/Logging.py", line 577, in initLogFile
backupCount = backupCount)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 109, in __init__
BaseRotatingHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/handlers.py", line 61, in __init__
logging.FileHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/logging/__init__.py", line 770, in __init__
stream = open(filename, mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/tmp/hellanzb.log'


It's a permission problem, but i don't know what to do.

[drave99]

what happens if you run "touch /var/tmp/hellanzb.log"

cant see why you would not have rights to /var/tmp

[musta78]

Thank you. I wrote the command and started hellanzb again, and there it was.

Not sure what the touch command did, but it worked.

Could you explain maybe?

[musta78]

Ok, so after a new install I got the same message, and this time touch gave me an answer:

touch: cannot touch `/var/tmp/hellanzb.log': Permission denied

It's strange because it's only a file that tells what that has happened, like the name says a log file.

But for some reason, after editing the config file, I get this error. And I only change where all the files would end up......

[musta78]

Ok, now I'm just beeing stupid. Forgot to launch the program with sudo........

[drave]

looks like that script doesnt create the file if it doesnt exist. touch is doing that