Sickrage / Couchpotato Symlink

[RDonovan]

Hi Guys, I'm going nuts with a thing that as far as I recall, it was working flawlessly on Wheezy and now is giving me headache on Jessie.

My default settings for renamer in Sickrage and CouchPotato has always been "Symbolic Link", this allows me to continue torrent seeding while my video library is neat and renamed.

Now on jessie I'm having troubles with the 2 software saying me that aren't able to create the link so I had to switch to "Move" option on the renamer.

My environment is:


- Sickrage, Couchpotato and Deluge are running as daemons, everyone with their own system user
- All the softwares run on the same main group which is 'users'
- Deluge downloads files into specifics "Sickrage" and "Couchpotato" folders, creating folders with 775 permissions and file with 666 permissions
- Sickbeard and Couchpotato access their own folder to move downloaded files to the archive which is an ntfs drive connected via USB.

I know that I can't create hardlink between different filesystems but I've always been able to create symlink.

Another thing that drives me crazy is that I can create symlinks from those folders to the archive using my user "giulio" which is part of the same "users" group, using:

Code:

ln -s /ssdstore/downloaded_torrents/sickrage/xxxx /media/store3TB/NAS/xxxx

My archive is mounted in fstab with this string:

Code:

#Storage3TB mount

UUID=8408244908243C94   /media/store3TB ntfs defaults,umask=000,uid=giulio,gid=users 0 0

Anyone is able to help me?!

[Mike]

Very detailed report, thank you!

Which users are sickrage and couchpotato running as exactly, are these users members of the 'users' group?

These commands will shed some light.

Code:

cat /etc/default/couchpotato
cat /etc/default/sickrage

Under which user are you trying to create the symlinks? As a sudo user? AFAIK it doesn't matter which user creates the symlink as long as it exists it should work, so doing so with root should be ok - but backup first in case.

I see you are using NTFS and I've had permission issues with it before, have you chown -R the folder you are mounting in?

[RDonovan]

Hi Mike, Thanks for the answer.

I don't have default init.d files since I'm using systemd scripts. in any case as you can see, Sickrage is running under 'sickrage' and Couchpotato under 'couchpotato' users. Both of them are members of 'users' group. Here some output from the groups command and the 2 systemd scripts:

Code:

giulio@BANANA-JESSIE:~$ groups couchpotato
couchpotato : users

Code:

giulio@BANANA-JESSIE:~$ groups sickrage
sickrage : users

Code:

giulio@BANANA-JESSIE:~$ groups giulio
giulio : users sudo

Code:

[Unit]
Description=SickRage Daemon

[Service]
User=sickrage
Group=users
Type=forking
GuessMainPID=no
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /opt/sickrage/SickBeard.py -q --daemon --nolaunch --datadir=/var/opt/sickrage

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Code:

[Unit]
Description=CouchPotato Daemon
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=couchpotato
Group=users
Type=forking
GuessMainPID=no
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /opt/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py --daemon --quiet --data_dir /var/opt/couchpotato
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Under your advice I've also tried to unmount the archive, chown the folder is mounted on, which was owned by root, but nothing changed.

I'm going nuts 

[Mike]

Do you have a backup so you can look at the exact symlink?

This may have something to do with you using systemd scripts (init.d scripts still work on Jessie), systemd may need some symlink enabler.

Try chmod 775 -R on the symlink