metube - not honoring UID/GID from .env?

[samwathegreat]

Having a strange issue with metube. I've specified a UID/GID for metube to run as in the .env file, but it still saves all files as root. It's clearly reading the .env file because it's honoring the assigned downloads folder.

in the .env file:

UID=33
GID=33

However, if I start a download, it's still owned by root and not the specified UID/GID.

I've asked in the actual metube discussions but other users suggest that it is working for them (using docker) and that perhaps it's something to do with the way metube is being run in the LXC.

Any ideas? @MickLesk

[tremor021]

[Unit]
Description=Metube - YouTube Downloader
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/opt/metube
EnvironmentFile=/opt/metube/.env
ExecStart=/opt/metube/.venv/bin/pipenv run python3 app/main.py
Restart=always
User=root

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Service file determines under what user the application starts.

[tremor021]

Because all files are owned by root?

[samwathegreat]

Because all files are owned by root?

Unlikely since I did a chown -R on all the files in /opt/metube to www-data.

Perhaps I need to chown /root/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.13.5-linux-x86_64-gnu/bin/python3.13 to www-data
but it already has execute permissions set for world

I'll try that next and report back.

[samwathegreat]

Update: Still fails :(

[tremor021]

I don't know what "fails" means, please provide some logs

[samwathegreat]

I don't know what "fails" means, please provide some logs

× metube.service - Metube - YouTube Downloader
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/metube.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2025-07-01 13:45:52 EDT; 1s ago
Duration: 2ms
Process: 351 ExecStart=/opt/metube/.venv/bin/pipenv run python3 app/main.py (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
Main PID: 351 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
CPU: 1ms

Jul 01 13:45:52 metube systemd[1]: metube.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Jul 01 13:45:52 metube systemd[1]: metube.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 01 13:45:52 metube systemd[1]: metube.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jul 01 13:45:52 metube systemd[1]: Stopped metube.service - Metube - YouTube Downloader.
Jul 01 13:45:52 metube systemd[1]: metube.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 01 13:45:52 metube systemd[1]: metube.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 01 13:45:52 metube systemd[1]: Failed to start metube.service - Metube - YouTube Downloader.

I can't seem to get anything more verbose than that.

When I try to manually run the command:

sudo -u www-data /opt/metube/.venv/bin/pipenv run python3 app/main.py
sudo: unable to execute /opt/metube/.venv/bin/pipenv: Permission denied

but this is owned by www-data and has execute permissions

-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 215 Jun 25 10:06 pipenv