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Alright, problem solved. Apparently I started sab the first (few) times as root, and even though the working directory was /home/myusername/, some of the directories in ~/.sabnzbd were created as root, who held ownership. So trying to run as myusername I was not allowed to write to those directories...

Ok, so playing with it a bit more, I find that the init.d script works just fine if I change the sudo user to root, which leads me to believe this is a folder permissions/ownership problem. I read in other threads that running the python file as root is strongly discouraged, so  I'm wondering what I...

Following instructions here: http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/install-as-a-unix-daemon and here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mgj1/sabnzbd.htm I tried to get sabnzbd to start automatically as a daemon. THe init.d update does not seem to work (sab is nto running after startup) but I've found at least one error th...