Need help to fix permission

[SMB_Punt]

Hi,

For a long time I've been starting the server as root, but today after a reboot I tried to start with a simple user as suggested by the startscript.

So I logged as "server", and tried to start the script, and there was Permission denied :

./ts3server_startscript.sh: line 48: ts3server.pid: Permission denied


ERROR: openFile( file:logs/ts3server_2019-07-02__11_34_40.221012_0.log) failed
ERROR: openFile( file:logs/ts3server_2019-07-02__11_34_40.221012_0.log) failed
ERROR: openFile( file:logs/ts3server_2019-07-02__11_34_40.221012_0.log) failed
ERROR: openFile( file:logs/ts3server_2019-07-02__11_34_40.221012_0.log) failed
ERROR: openFile( file:logs/ts3server_2019-07-02__11_34_40.221012_0.log) failed
ERROR: openFile( file:logs/ts3server_2019-07-02__11_34_40.221012_0.log) failed
ERROR: openFile( file:logs/ts3server_2019-07-02__11_34_40.221012_0.log) failed
2019-07-02 11:34:40.230116|CRITICAL|ServerLibPriv |   |Server() DatabaseError unable to open database file
ERROR: openFile( file:logs/ts3server_2019-07-02__11_34_40.221012_0.log) failed

Here is my directory :

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total 53756
drwxr-xr-x 9 root   root       4096 Jul  2 13:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 server server     4096 May 26 11:59 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 server server    57370 Jul 31  2018 CHANGELOG
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root       4096 Aug 16  2018 doc/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root       4096 May 14  2018 files/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    4521984 May 14  2018 latest.tar.gz
-rwxr--r-- 1 server server  1000888 Jul 31  2018 libts3db_mariadb.so*
-rwxr--r-- 1 server server  2191496 Jul 31  2018 libts3db_sqlite3.so*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 server server   914160 Jul 31  2018 libts3_ssh.so*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 server server    68141 Jul 31  2018 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root       1631 Mar  1 19:39 licensekey.dat
drwxr--r-- 2 root   root       4096 Jul  2 13:28 logs/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root          1 May 14  2018 query_ip_blacklist.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root         10 May 14  2018 query_ip_whitelist.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root       4096 Aug 16  2018 redist/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root        112 May 14  2018 serverkey.dat
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root       4096 Aug 16  2018 serverquerydocs/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root   root      12288 Aug 16  2018 sql/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 server server 11278528 Jul 31  2018 ts3server*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root          0 Aug 16  2018 .ts3server_license_accepted
-rwxr--r-- 1 root   root    6102328 May 14  2018 ts3server_linux_amd64*
-rwxr--r-- 1 server server      129 Jul 31  2018 ts3server_minimal_runscript.sh*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     850944 Jul  2 13:34 ts3server.sqlitedb
-rwxr--r-- 1 server server     2661 Jul 31  2018 ts3server_startscript.sh*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root         64 May 14  2018 ts3server_upstart.sh*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root       4096 Aug 16  2018 tsdns/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   27967432 May 14  2018 webmin_1.780_all.deb

Thanks for the help !

[dante696]

Please do not use the root login to run the server. Doing that is not supported.
Please create a new non root user and then install the server for that user.

Here you can read what files you need to move/copy in case you want to get the all server settings and files back on the new location
https://forum.teamspeak.com/threads/103745

[SMB_Punt]

Yep,
That's why I'm here actually : to not start the server as root.

Is there a solution to fix permissions instead of a clean install?

If not, I'll do a clean install in the next days...
I could update Ubuntu too, is Ubuntu 18.04 supported?

Thanks for you answer!

[dante696]

You don't have to do a clean install.
Just create a new user and extract the server there. Then transfer the files mentioned in the link to this new server folder.

Yes 18.04 is supported.

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Ps. Fixing permissions on your system is not what we are here for.
You need to use a manual or their support to get this solved.

[SMB_Punt]

Ok thanks!

[Galbi3000]

You need to change the owners of the files to the server user. Use the following command as root in the server directory:

chown -R server:server *

That should solve the permissions error.