From 5c97b25fe2e3754a9dac20062741c0b7d6a5b9bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:05:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Better error message.

---
 src/log.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/log.py b/src/log.py
index 980233c20..7e771b02f 100644
--- a/src/log.py
+++ b/src/log.py
@@ -386,7 +386,16 @@ pluginLogDir = os.path.join(_logDir, 'plugins')
 if not os.path.exists(pluginLogDir):
     os.mkdir(pluginLogDir, 0755)
 
-_handler = BetterFileHandler(os.path.join(_logDir, 'misc.log'))
+try:
+    miscLogFilename = os.path.join(_logDir, 'misc.log')
+    _handler = BetterFileHandler(miscLogFilename)
+except EnvironmentError, e:
+    raise SystemExit, \
+          'Error opening miscellaneous logfile (%s).  ' \
+          'Generally, this is because you are running Supybot in a directory ' \
+          'you don\'t have permissions to add files in, or you\'re running ' \
+          'Supybot as a different user than you normal do.  The original ' \
+          'error was: %s' % (miscLogFilename, utils.exnToString(e))
 _handler.setFormatter(formatter)
 _handler.setLevel(-1)
 class PluginLogFilter(logging.Filter):