Dietpi: Can't change bazarr user name

[Dr0bac]

Hi, i have problem like it is described in this issue:

https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr/issues/1061

in bazarr wiki is says after installation that i need to change ownership of files where bazarr is installed, in my case in /opt/bazarr

it also says that my user must have home directory.

so i created new user bazarr adduser username and added that user to dietpi group usermod -g dietpi bazarr

tried with sudo chown -R $bazarr:$dietpi /opt/bazarr but nothing changed, it is still root:root

root@DietPi:~# cd /opt/ root@DietPi:/opt# ls -l total 28 drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 13 06:06 bazarr drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 8 2019 emby-server drwxr-xr-x 3 sonarr dietpi 12288 Mar 27 23:51 NzbDrone drwxr-xr-x 3 radarr dietpi 4096 Mar 9 22:04 Radarr drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 14 2019 vc root@DietPi:/opt# python3 bazarr/bazarr.py Bazarr starting... 2020-08-13 06:28:04,318 - root (76fb0ad0) : INFO (init:57) - BAZARR installing requirements... 2020-08-13 06:28:10,226 - root (76fb0ad0) : INFO (init:61) - BAZARR requirements installed. 2020-08-13 06:28:10,228 - root (76fb0ad0) : INFO (init:67) - Bazarr is being restarted... Bazarr is restarting... 2020-08-13 06:28:13,928 - root (76fa0ad0) : INFO (init:57) - BAZARR installing requirements... 2020-08-13 06:28:19,838 - root (76fa0ad0) : INFO (init:61) - BAZARR requirements installed. 2020-08-13 06:28:19,839 - root (76fa0ad0) : INFO (init:67) - Bazarr is being restarted... Bazarr is restarting... 2020-08-13 06:28:23,555 - root (76fb1ad0) : INFO (init:57) - BAZARR installing requirements... 2020-08-13 06:28:29,467 - root (76fb1ad0) : INFO (init:61) - BAZARR requirements installed. 2020-08-13 06:28:29,468 - root (76fb1ad0) : INFO (init:67) - Bazarr is being restarted... Bazarr is restarting... 2020-08-13 06:28:33,168 - root (76efead0) : INFO (init:57) - BAZARR installing requirements... ^CBazarr exited. root@DietPi:/opt# sudo chown -R $bazarr:$dietpi /opt/bazarr root@DietPi:/opt# ls -l total 28 drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 13 06:06 bazarr drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 8 2019 emby-server drwxr-xr-x 3 sonarr dietpi 12288 Mar 27 23:51 NzbDrone drwxr-xr-x 3 radarr dietpi 4096 Mar 9 22:04 Radarr drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 14 2019 vc

[Joulinar]

Hi,

many thanks for your request. Command to change directory ownership is as follow

chown -R bazarr:dietpi /opt/bazarr

[Dr0bac]

Thank you. I can now change user/group names. So dollar signs were the main problem here?

[Joulinar]

Yes

[MichaIng]

Dollar signs are variable calls in shell. Means $bazarr will be replaced with the value of the variable named "bazarr" and since it most likely does not exist, it will be an empty string. Try out this:

# Print the empty variable named "bazarr"
echo $bazarr
# Assign a value to this variable
bazarr=someContent
# Print the variable which now has a value
echo $bazarr

In your case you wanted to change owner of the files to the literal user names "bazarr" and "dietpi", not to the names assigned as values to the variables "$bazarr" and "$dietpi". I remember my first days of messing with shell code 🤣.