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Hey guys, so I've got sab installed on ubuntu using the default repo's, etc. and I'm running into a question that is probably more linux than sab but maybe someone can help me.

So my /etc/default/sabnzbdplus looks like this:

USER=josh
CONFIG=/storage/downloads
HOST=
PORT=
EXTRAOPTS=

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And still sab is putting the ini in /home/josh/.sabnzbd

To back up a little bit here, the only reason I moved it was because /storage/downloads is on my 250GB drive and I need to keep PAR/RAR off my OS drive because I'm running a m0n0wall VM on there and I dont want to have any performance issues.

But when I put /storage/downloads/incomplete, etc. in the web interface, it wouldnt take, and obviously doing so in the ini makes sab crash. I then tried ./storage/downloads/incomplete, etc. because I thought that would escape the /home/josh/.sabnzbd home I thought it was stuck in. Anyway, it would be nice to leave the ini file in /home/josh/.sabnzbd if possible, but if not, can anyone tell me why /etc/default/sabnzbdplus is not having any effect?

btw, josh is the primary account I setup when installing ubuntu. It also is the owner of /storage/downloads:

drwxr-xr-x  6 josh josh  4096 2009-06-28 19:37 downloads

thanks in advance.

is this directory really /storage/... or relative from /home/user/ ?

All this points to lack of permissions, especially since trying to set these directories in the web interface also fails. Keep in mind that in order to have access to a directory, you will also need some minimal permissions (iirc at least +x for the relevant account) in the rest of the tree.