Permission error on Apple TV

[workshy68]

I have sabnzbd (0.6.6) running on an apple tv which works fine by itself but am having problems with a plugin for XBMC.

The plugin allows you to look up a nzb which then loads it into sabnzb to start the download. The plugin then allows you to watch the file as it downloads once the 1st & last .rar files have downloaded.

The download starts ok but the file never starts playing. I believe it is a permissions problem as the plugin requires read/write access to the incomplete folder.

All the folders created by sabnzbd have owner=root, but XBMC runs as owner=mobile. Is there a way to change the owner of sabnzbd? or allow read/write access for any owner to all the files/folders within the incomplete folder?

[shypike]

If you run SABnzbd as root, the folders will be owned by root.
So the message is: don't run it as root but under the same account as XBMC.

[workshy68]

Thanks for the reply.

This is all new to me so could you explain how i run under the XMBX account?

[workshy68]

I sorted out the Apple tv which now works but am trying to sort out the permissions of the incomplete folder on my iMac.

I did a chmod -R 0777 on the folder but when a new download starts the permissions stay as :drwxr-xr-x when i am after :drwxrwxrwx.

I read a post on here about changing a line in the SABnzbd.py file and the only SABnzbd.py file i can find is in Contents/resources which shows when i show package contents of the SABnzbd in the applications folder.

The line i changed was: os.umask(prev and int('077',8))

which i changed to: #os.umask(prev and int('077',8)) but didn't work, so tried changing to: os.umask(prev and int('000',8)) and that still doesn't work.

How can this be done?

[shypike]

You should not disable the line, but add the proper umask, so:
os.umask(prev and int('000',8))
The side effect will be that you expose the SABnzbd admin files, including sabnzbd.ini to all accounts.
Not sure if you want that.

[workshy68]

I tried the correct umask but still get 'drwxr-xr-x' for the permissions on the folder.

Not too bothered about exposing the files for now...would just like to get it to work.

[shypike]

Isn't that good enough? Why do you need write access for the other accounts?

[workshy68]

For some reason unknown to me yet, the only way i got the xbmc plugin to work on the apple tv was having full read/write access on all accounts.

I'm now trying to get this to work on my mac so would like the same permissions on the incomplete folder. I just dont know why it's not happening with the change made to SABnzbd.py and performing chmod -R 0777 on the folder.