RESOLVED: Subsonic Update

[burn913]

I never made any changes to the permissions of that directory. What I'm trying to do is use Subsonic's podcast tool. It downloads the podcasts automatically to that directory, but on update to the new version, it won't download to that directory.

[bigfoot65]

There may have been some change in the new version. Can you point to a different directory? This is something specific to Subsonic, so you may need to check with the vendor.

We cannot help much here.

[burn913]

Ok, I am waiting for a reply on subsonic's forum. They're much slower to respond than you! In the meantime, is there an easy way for me to check the permissions on that podcast folder? I know it exists, because the previously downloaded podcasts are still there and working.

Thanks for your help.

[bigfoot65]

You can do

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ls -al /var/Podcast/

That should reflect the ownership and if it's writable. There is one other thing you can try.

As root user, edit /etc/sysconfig/subsonic and change your user name to root (last line I think). Then restart subsonic.

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systemctl restart subsonic

If that does not work, recommend you put it back.

[burn913]

Thanks, I'll give those things a shot. You've been very helpful.

[bigfoot65]

Hope it helps. There are so many variables with problems of this nature.

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[burn913]

So when i ran ls -al /var/Podcast/

I got:

Total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 18:37 .
drwxr-xr-x. 23 root root 4096 Jun 18 18:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 29 20:05 Basic Brewing Radio

Does this mean anything to you?

[burn913]

Someone on Subsonic forum suggested:
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/Podcast/

That didn't do the trick. They then suggested (which i'll try this evening):

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/Podcast/
If its works, you could leave it like that. Or you could type in terminal
chown -R user /var/Podcast/, replace user with the name of your subsonic user.

To find the subsonic user in terminal
type
nano /etc/default/subsonic and copy the name after the "SUBSONIC_USER="

and then apply
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/Podcast/
again.

[bigfoot65]

Did you try changing the user as I suggested?

Some of the guidance they gave you is debian specific so it won't work. i.e. /etc/default/subsonic.

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[burn913]

hmmm. ok.

While I'm not sure how to edit that subsonic config file, the user was already set as my root username, so I didn't try too hard to change it.