On 18/09/2016 23:15, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > On So, 2016-09-18 at 23:03 +0200, Otfried Cheong wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to create my first snap, and have a first question: >> >> When a snap is installed (say hello-world), the system creates two >> data >> directories, /var/snap/hello-world/<revision> and >> /var/snap/hello-world/common. >> >> Apparently these are meant for the snap when it needs writable >> storage, >> but both directories are owned by root, and I haven't found any way >> to >> write to them, either from inside the snap or outside, whether >> installing in --devmode or not. >> > they are for services (which always run as root by default) ... > > user writable dirs are in ~/snap/<packagename>/<version>/ > in the running snap environment this is represented by the > SNAP_USER_DATA environment variable. > > ciao > oli > > You also have $SNAP_USER_COMMON: ~/snap/<packagename>/common/ , that persists between upgrades of the snap.
David
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