directory permission error shouldn't be an exception

[Moved from bugzilla] Reporter: peter@palfrader.org (Peter Palfrader)

Description: Opened: 2003-10-27 21:07

directory permission error shouldn't be an exception, but rather a nice error message.

latest cvs

weasel@valiant:~/mixminion/bin$ ./mixminion server-start -f ../etc/ mixminiond.conf Mixminion version 0.0.6alpha1 This software is for testing purposes only. Anonymity is not guaranteed. Reading configuration from ../etc/mixminiond.conf Oct 27 21:06:27.937 [WARN] Mode specification is not yet supported. Oct 27 21:06:27.938 [WARN] Dangerously low MixInterval Oct 27 21:06:27.944 [DEBUG] Configuring server Oct 27 21:06:27.946 [INFO] Enabling statistics logging Oct 27 21:06:27.958 [FATAL]
Oct 27 21:06:27.974 [FATAL] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/weasel/mixminion/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/server/ ServerMain.py", line 1078, in runServer EventStats.configureLog(config) File "/home/weasel/mixminion/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/server/ EventStats.py", line 312, in configureLog log = EventLog( File "/home/weasel/mixminion/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/server/ EventStats.py", line 166, in init createPrivateDir(parent) File "/home/weasel/mixminion/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/ Common.py", line 431, in createPrivateDir checkPrivateDir(d) File "/home/weasel/mixminion/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/ Common.py", line 484, in checkPrivateDir raise MixFilePermissionError( MixFilePermissionError: Bad permissions (mode 777) on directory /home/ weasel/mixminion

------- Additional Comments From Nick Mathewson 2003-11-07 08:35 -------

Fixed in 0.0.6 CVS

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