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Help with electrum server
by
Yzord
on 23/02/2015, 17:55:49 UTC
I am trying to build my own Electrum server cause of the IP glitch and i am following this guide:

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-server/blob/master/HOWTO.md

But when i start my server i get this:

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bitcoin@electrum:~$ electrum-server start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/run_electrum_server", line 5, in
    pkg_resources.run_script('electrum-server==0.9', 'run_electrum_server')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 528, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1401, in run_script
    exec(script_code, namespace, namespace)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_server-0.9-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/run_electrum_server", line 205, in
   
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_server-0.9-py2.7.egg/electrumserver/utils.py", line 236, in init_logger
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/handlers.py", line 391, in __init__
    logging.FileHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding, delay)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 903, in __init__
    StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 928, in _open
    stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/electrum.log'

Anyone know what i did wrong? I run it on Ubuntu 14.04