Running container image failed

[fliepflapfloep]

Using a clean VM running Ubuntu 20.04.1 to run a Spiderfoot container. I have placed the user in the docker group to avoid having to use "sudo" with every command.
The latest version of Spiderfoot has been used by using the following command: "git clone https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot.git" and the image has been build using: "docker build -t spiderfoot . "

When i try to start a container using the image i just created i get the following error message:

~$ docker run -p 5009:5001 spiderfoot
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sf.py", line 46, in <module>
    backupCount=30
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/logging/handlers.py", line 202, in __init__
    BaseRotatingHandler.__init__(self, filename, 'a', encoding, delay)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/logging/handlers.py", line 57, in __init__
    logging.FileHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding, delay)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1032, in __init__
    StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1061, in _open
    return open(self.baseFilename, self.mode, encoding=self.encoding)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/spiderfoot/log/spiderfoot.debug.log'

What can be the cause of the problem?

[maandagdev]

I am also having the same issue, when going to an older release everything works properly.

[sibtcha]

I'm also having the same issue 😞

[bcoles]

It is caused by a permission issue due to the log directory.

Here's a work around.

1. Delete or rename the log directory: mv log logs.old

• (if you've only ever been using SpiderFoot in the docker container, and not on the host, then this directory should be empty)

2. Apply the following diff.

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 0dcda94c..3ef6f748 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ WORKDIR /home/spiderfoot
 # Place database and configs outside installation directory
 ENV SPIDERFOOT_DATA /var/lib/spiderfoot
 
+ENV SPIDERFOOT_LOGS /home/spiderfoot/log
+
 # Run everything as one command so that only one layer is created
 RUN apk --update --no-cache add python3 musl openssl libxslt tinyxml libxml2 jpeg zlib openjpeg \
     && addgroup spiderfoot \
@@ -58,6 +60,8 @@ RUN apk --update --no-cache add python3 musl openssl libxslt tinyxml libxml2 jpe
     && rm -rf /lib/apk/db \
     && rm -rf /root/.cache \
     && mkdir $SPIDERFOOT_DATA \
+    && mkdir $SPIDERFOOT_LOGS \
+    && chown spiderfoot:spiderfoot $SPIDERFOOT_LOGS \
     && chown spiderfoot:spiderfoot $SPIDERFOOT_DATA
 
 COPY --from=build /opt/venv /opt/venv

3. Build the image: docker build -t spiderfoot .
4. You can now run SpiderFoot: docker run -p 5001:5001 spiderfoot

[sibtcha]

Perfect, it work now. Thank you

[TheTechromancer]

The above fix didn't work on my system, because the final line COPY . . was overwriting the permissions.

Moving COPY . . before the chown commands fixed the issue for me.

[bcoles]

The above fix didn't work on my system, because the final line COPY . . was overwriting the permissions.

Moving COPY . . before the chown commands fixed the issue for me.

Strange. The above fix should have worked for you. COPY . . should not overwrite the permissions on log if the log directory does not exist. Are you sure you removed the log directory first?

I've fixed this in #1182 by adding the log directory to .dockerignore.