On 02Jan2010 15:21, cassiope <f...@u.washington.edu> wrote: | [...] I want | to save a copy of the email in a particular directory which is | accessible to the Windows clients via samba. | | The strange thing is that even with the right user-id, I cannot seem | to write to the directory, getting an IOError exception. Changing the | directory to world-writable fixes this. I can confirm the uid and gid | for the script by having the script print these values just before | trying to create/write the file. Becoming the same lesser user, I | have no problem writing a file to the same directory.
Can you show us: - the directory user and group ownership and permissions - the daemon's user and group values? You can also strace your daemon: strace -f -e trace=file your-daemon your-daemon-args... 2>strace.out and then examine the log for the precise UNIX-level failure. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salary of a large research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
