What default?
I'm guessing one of the services makes that change on startup. Start them one by one and see. Then check its configuration.
Personally I just run them in containers. Much less mess.
yep this, going to find some docker compose file with everything and strip it back to what I want
I've been trying to do the same with this Plex & *arr stack, but am brand new to docker and dont know what I'm doing.
https://github.com/DonMcD/ultimate-plex-stack
it's high time to consider jellyfin. plex is moving streaming to their paid subscription
What is it you don’t understand, perhaps I can guide you.
Do you have any technical knowledge? Like navigating systems or any programming experience?
I only ask those as if yes, then watching a couple of videos about docker-compose should be sufficient. Once you have an understanding of what it does you can rely on the docs more then.
Even asking ChatGPT for an example docker-compose file for what you want would be a great start.
I often find, and its true in this case, that the guides I see show detailed installation instructions, and then say 'then simply replace the variables in the config, et voila'.
I have my variables, but dont know where, or exactly how to put them in the docker compose file. Like do I replace all of them? Do I need the '$' signs?
Anyway, you're right, some videos should make it easier. I'll have a look, thanks.
I'm still working on learning about containers but not quite there yet.
Default being, when each service is installed it creates an individual user/group (sonarr, radarr, sabnzbd) and the folder that is created in /var/lib/ for each service is set to those particular users/groups.
At this time, sonarr and radarr seem to be ok (I will need to double check after an update to them) but SABnzbd reverts the folder permissions every time I reboot and complains whenever I reboot since it can't write to the db or log files because the permissions change. I have looked at the config but didn't see anything outstanding that would indicate a reason it would be changing. Unless I am missing a different config file somewhere outside of that folder. There aren't any settings from within the web interface pointing to that either, at least from what I could see.
Are you mounting a FAT32 disk by any chance?
Nope, I'm running ext4 on pretty much everything.
I recommend this guy: https://youtube.com/@serversathome
While I don't think this is exactly what you want, it should have some handy info.
That is not normal. I have much the same setup, sabnzbd, Plex, jellyfin, sonar, radar. They all run under a particular user and their /opt and /var/lib folders don't 'revert' to their old ownership and permissions.
Either something is watching those folders and setting permissions, or some kind of immutability is in play, but permissions normally don't revert like that.
Interesting, was there anything in particular that you did with the services other than editing the service to run as those particular users?
Side note, I just tried to chown the sabnzbd folder and everything inside updated but the main folder itself refuses to change. Even after stopping the service.
Edit: scratch that. I closed and re-opened Dolphin and checked the properties of the folder and now it's showing correctly.
I just vi the systemd/system/fancyname.service files father than use systemd edit, but I think the result is the same.
There are two configs you can add to the [service] directive:
user=someuser
This should allow you to run the service under the credentials of your choosing.
Remember to systemctl daemon-reload after making changes to unit files.
Ok, yeah.
Fell asleep last night sorry.
I did the following for that. I just went and double checked it and it is set to what I want it to.
[Service]
User=username
Group=groupname
Ok, I'm not entirely sure what happened but it's working now. Just restarted my computer and it didn't revert.
Strange.
Good stuff!
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