Hi Ryan, Thanks for the reply, My repository is served via apache and the user running it is www-data. And yes, the user does have rights in the folder. Here's the code I'm trying to run with the contents of the output.txt file from the python code.
Python code: log_cmd='java -jar -Duser.home=/var/www /tmp/integrationtestscript-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar' import os output = os.popen(log_cmd, 'r').read() ofile = open('/tmp/output.txt','w') ofile.write(output) ofile.close() JAVA code: package integrationtestscript; import com.ibatis.common.jdbc.ScriptRunner; import java.io.*; import java.sql.SQLException; import com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl; public class App { public static void main(String[] args) { try { System.out.println("Hello World!"); File f; f=new File("/tmp/myfile.txt"); if(!f.exists()){ f.createNewFile(); System.out.println("New file \"myfile.txt\" has been created to the current directory"); } System.out.println("Exit"); System.exit(0); } catch (Exception ex) { System.out.println(ex.getMessage()); } } } Contents of /tmp/Output.txt after execution as a pre-commit hook. Hello World! Permission denied Regards, Brent -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-20...@ryandesign.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:02 PM To: DEVELA Brent Cc: 'users@subversion.apache.org' Subject: Re: Permission Denied Error on Pre-commit Java hook On Dec 15, 2009, at 04:14, DEVELA Brent wrote: > I've created my very first hook and what it does is that a Python script > calls a java jar file which then creates a file writes something into it. > When it is run as a hook, I am getting a Permission Denied error. The script > runs perfectly when its directly run using the command line. Any help will be > appreciated. How do I get around this security issue? The SVN resides on a > Linux box. How is your repository served -- via apache? or svnserve? As what user is that process running? Does that user have permission to write to the place where your jar is creating its file?