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Hi, Fisrt of all I'll point out that sabnzbd is great.. I've been trying to find a decent linux usenet client for a while now and I found it.

I have one problem though.... once a download completed the files and the directories created are owned by root and I don't even have permission to view them. I've been getting by this with 'chmod -R me /my/download/folder' but I was wondering if there's a way for the files to automatically be saved as mine?

Thanks

You could run SAB as yourself using sudo -u.  That's what I do, but I'm lazy.

Thanks for the suggestion, I just gave it a try but it didn't work... The server wouldn't come up. I chown'd all the sabnzbd files too to make sure there was no rights issues but I'm getting errors now from cherrypy in /var/lib/. I don't really want to chown all of that too.

I'll keep trying to mess with it but if anyone knows a way for sabnzbd to automatically save files as another user.. please

Use the --permissions option on the commandline.

./SABnzbd.py --permissions 0777

Will make all files accessible for everyone.

Documented in:
http://sabnzbdplus.wiki.sourceforge.net ... ermissions

You have two options, either change permissions to some world readable... please see the wiki:

http://sabnzbdplus.wiki.sourceforge.net ... ermissions

Or you could create a post script doing the chown for you...

You can also add yourself to whatever group sab is running in and make sure the files are output as group read/write.

Run it as the user you want to have permission:
change the directory and user you want to have permission only

if you add --permissions 0770 extra, the user it runs has full permission, the group that the user is in has full permission and the rest have no permission.

correct me if im wrong... only using unix for 2 months