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[jordan4ibanez]

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[ds-2k]

Minetest cannot write to the minetest.conf if it is compiled as server only it seems, or am I doing something wrong?

The server can write the configuration file if a mod calls

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minetest.setting_save()

This was done this way instead of saving on exit to prevent losing modified settings if the server crashed. See the original pull request for details:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/391

[jordan4ibanez]

Minetest cannot write to the minetest.conf if it is compiled as server only it seems, or am I doing something wrong?

The server can write the configuration file if a mod calls

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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minetest.setting_save()

This was done this way instead of saving on exit to prevent losing modified settings if the server crashed. See the original pull request for details:
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/391

I have mods that call that, but they won't write

[stu]

I have exactly the same issue: minetest.setting_save() is not working when I run minetestserver.
Singleplayer seems to work for other mods though. I thought I'd just missed something or that it was perhaps normal behaviour.

Hopefully someone has the answer.

btw. I am using xubuntu 12.04 & minetest 0.4.4-d1

[prestidigitator]

Hmm. Have you installed from the actual Ubuntu/Debian package? Perhaps Minetest is trying to write to the /usr/share/minetest/... tree instead of saving a modified version under ~/.minetest/..., which WOULD be a problem. No normal user application should be able to write to the /usr tree.

[stu]

Hmm. Have you installed from the actual Ubuntu/Debian package? Perhaps Minetest is trying to write to the /usr/share/minetest/... tree instead of saving a modified version under ~/.minetest/..., which WOULD be a problem. No normal user application should be able to write to the /usr tree.

Not that for me anyway. The version in question was compiled as 'run in place'. I do have the latest stable version installed in system but I've only ever used it as singleplayer.

[stu]

Out of curiosity I tried it on the system wide intstallation and got same result there.
Makes no difference whether I run it as a regular user or root.

[prestidigitator]

Huh. Okay. Well, it was just a thought.

By the way, I wouldn't EVER run Minetest as root, especially if you load mods you did not create yourself. Better to temporarily grant full access to /usr/share/minetest to test if that is the problem than to run as root.

[stu]

Never did get to the bottom of this but it appears to fixed (for me anyway) with minetest version 0.4.5