[Factorio Headless] no perms to load settings.json

[JodyHighroller]

[Edit: RESOLVED by first comment. Thanks!]

I'm trying to run a headless with limited Linux knowledge, I'm running it off a box we already use for other things (it's on a VPS so no risk in screwing up, I already got dozens of "if you don't understand Linux you shouldn't be using it" comments on a Linux subreddit, lol.)

I'm running this command:

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factorio@pvp:/root$ /opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --start-server A_15_13.zip --server-settings data/server-settings.json

And getting this error:

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 0.000 2017-06-05 03:32:21; Factorio 0.15.18 (build 30150, linux64, headless)
   0.028 Operating system: Linux (Ubuntu 16.04)
   0.028 Program arguments: "/opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio" "--start-server" "A_15_13.zip" "--server-settings" "data/server-settings.json"
   0.028 Read data path: /opt/factorio/data
   0.028 Write data path: /opt/factorio
   0.028 Binaries path: /opt/factorio/bin
   0.032 System info: [CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 8 cores, RAM: 32188MB]
   0.033 Running in headless mode
   0.034 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.037 Loading mod base 0.15.18 (data.lua)
   0.091 Loading mod base 0.15.18 (data-updates.lua)
   0.109 Checksum for core: 368996287
   0.109 Checksum of base: 3838408653
   0.167 Info PlayerData.cpp:56: Local player-data.json available, timestamp 1496647867
   0.168 Info PlayerData.cpp:63: Cloud player-data.json unavailable
   0.168 Custom inputs active: 0
   0.168 Factorio initialised
   0.169 Info ServerMultiplayerManager.cpp:140: Quitting multiplayer connection.
   0.169 Info ServerMultiplayerManager.cpp:670: mapTick(-1) changing state from(Ready) to(Closed)
   0.176 Goodbye
   0.000  Error Util.cpp:62: Error when opening data/server-settings.json for reading: Permission denied

When I run it without the --server-settings argument it says the same thing about not having permissions to access the save file. I've already done chown -R several times and made sure that all of the files in /opt/factorio are owned by factorio:factorio.

I've gotten it to work before and had an issue that I've seen mentioned before where the server would crash every time it tried to autosave, I gave up on trying to fix that and I was too busy to try again at the time so this time I started from scratch and got stuck here. (Just thought I'd mention that in case it's relevant.)

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

[daniel34]

Your working directory is the /root folder, it's possible that Factorio looks there for the settings/save. Try going into the /opt/factorio folder and then call it with bin/x64/factorio.

[JodyHighroller]

Your working directory is the /root folder, it's possible that Factorio looks there for the settings/save. Try going into the /opt/factorio folder and then call it with bin/x64/factorio.

Yep... that was it. Thank you so much. I was so deep into trying to fix lag issues and stuff the last time I got it working that I didn't notice that simple mistake. I really appreciate it.

Speaking of which... Any advice for getting rid of lag? I started the server earlier and there was 0 lag like I was playing singleplayer, now there's like a 100-200ms delay when moving items around in chests.