--add-price-quotes only running as root

AmigaPhil AmigaPhil at ping.be
Tue May 12 03:08:11 EDT 2009


> Carlos Eduardo Tavares Terra wrote:
>
>> I am having trouble while trying to update quotes from stock market.
>> When I try it manually from console, I get this:
>>
>> [cyyi at mi117091 gnucash]$ gnucash --debug --extra --add-price-quotes eduardo
>> Found Finance::Quote version 1.16
>> gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "ct" unregistered
>> gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "configmgr" unregistered
>> gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "dbio" unregistered
>>
>> But none of my quotes updates.
>> When I try as root the same messages are shown, but this time my
>> quotes are updated.
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> What can it be? Maybe some file permission?

I replied:

> Which version of GnuCash are you using ?
> Did --add-price-quotes used to work before ?
>
> Have you updated Finance::Quote recently ?  And if yes, how ?
>
> Quoted from the Concepts Guide:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Note that both "gnc-fq-update" and "gnc-fq-dump" are supposed to
> be ran from a root shell.  ("gnucash --add-price-quotes" should
> work without root priviledges however.)

This could also help:

ls -l eduardo



AmigaPhil



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