Directory not writable

[Priv...@gmail.com]

I'm getting an error message saying that my download directory is not
writable by nzbperl. I did confirm that, assuming nzbperl was running
as the current user, that user can write to the directory. In
addition I tried just opening up the permissions on the directory to
the world to see if that would make a difference. Either way is a no
go. Any idea why I might be getting this error even if the directory
is writable? (I even changed the parent directories such that anyone
could get to the download directory)

[Jason Plumb]

What platform?
What is the directory?
What user/group own this dir and its parent?
What are the permissions on the dir?
Can you manually create a file in that dir?

-jason

[Priv...@gmail.com]

On Dec 2, 10:59 am, Jason Plumb <ja...@noisybox.net> wrote:
> What platform?
Debian Etch

> What is the directory?
Sub-directory inside the Users home directory

> What user/group own this dir and its parent?

Yes. I also tried running nzbperl as root, which didn't work either.

> What are the permissions on the dir?

Basic is 750, but I modded the home directory and the sub-directory to
777 to see if that would work (back to 750 now since it didn't work)

> Can you manually create a file in that dir?

Yes

>
> -jason

[Jason Plumb]

Priv...@gmail.com wrote:
>> What user/group own this dir and its parent?
> Yes. I also tried running nzbperl as root, which didn't work either.
>> What are the permissions on the dir?
> Basic is 750, but I modded the home directory and the sub-directory to
> 777 to see if that would work (back to 750 now since it didn't work)
>> Can you manually create a file in that dir?
> Yes

That's really weird.

So I can think of two other things:

1) Try running this from the commandline as the user (substitute
/home/user/dloadpath for the appropriate path):
perl -e "print -w '/home/user/dloadpath' ? 'yes' : 'no';"
and post the output the list.

2) How is the download path being given to nzbperl? By the config file,
the command line, or not at all (default is pwd).

-jason
http://noisybox.net