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Has anyone managed to run Droppox on their linode server? I tried on a CentOS 5.6 and on a Fedora linode. I followed the instructions on dropbox website for linux install, and also tried installing via yum. All cases no luck.

Everytime I try to run it I get the following message:

"

Couldn't start Dropbox

This is usually because of a permissions error. Errors can also be caused by your home folder being stored on a network share.

Get more help at https://www.dropbox.com/c/help/permissi … or?cl=en_U">https://www.dropbox.com/c/help/permissionserror?cl=enU

"

Thanks in advance,

Lev

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Which user are you running Dropbox as? Does this user have a home directory? Is the home directory writable by the user? Is the user's dropbox folder writable by the user? (These things are commonly overlooked when you use root to create directory hierarchies.)

Running as root, homedir is /root

Try running it as a different user with a home directory in /home/username. There's a chance that Dropbox doesn't like /root. (Besides, it's a bad idea to run programs like this as root.)

Yeah, that worked. Thanks

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