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Diffstat (limited to 'cloudinit/cmd/query.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | cloudinit/cmd/query.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/cmd/query.py b/cloudinit/cmd/query.py index ff03de94..1d888b9d 100644 --- a/cloudinit/cmd/query.py +++ b/cloudinit/cmd/query.py @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ """Query standardized instance metadata from the command line.""" import argparse +from errno import EACCES import os import six import sys @@ -106,8 +107,11 @@ def handle_args(name, args): try: instance_json = util.load_file(instance_data_fn) - except IOError: - LOG.error('Missing instance-data.json file: %s', instance_data_fn) + except (IOError, OSError) as e: + if e.errno == EACCES: + LOG.error("No read permission on '%s'. Try sudo", instance_data_fn) + else: + LOG.error('Missing instance-data file: %s', instance_data_fn) return 1 instance_data = util.load_json(instance_json) |