Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (25/11/2008): > > [20:51:16] terminaldelmal:~$ pyscrabble-server > > [...] > > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/pyscrabble/pyscrabble.log' > > That's because I've built the pyscrabble-server package so that > pyscrabble-server can be started automatically from > /etc/init.d/pyscrabble, running under a dedicated account > "pyscrabble". I did not mean for it to be run manually. There should > be more information in /usr/share/doc/pyscrabble-server/README.Debian.
Starting it this way should also fail more elegantly. A brief “foo isn't supposed to be run as…, see … for more info” would be nice. > That's because /usr/games is not normally in root's $PATH. It might > have been a mistake to install pyscrabble-server in /usr/games. It's > possible that it should have been installed in /usr/sbin even though > it's a game server. It might have reduced confusion. Nice question, I'm also waiting for input on [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) Mraw, KiBi.
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