[Sedna-discussion] Problem with binary installer

[Ritesh N. <ri...@gm...>]

Hello All

I believe the binary installer is broken in Ubuntu and Ubuntu based
systems. I think I had reported it earlier.

Even though I have sudo access, and if I do: echo $EUID on console and
it returns 0, the condition fails in the shell script.

I had to manually comment out the failcheck line to install from the
binary. Uncommenting them installs and then sedna runs without any
problem.

if test ! "$EUID" "=" "0"; then
  echo -n "NOTICE: $DISTNAME is system software that requires deep
integration with your operating system. "
  echo -n "To obtain best performance Sedna components use
sophisticated memory management techniques and "
  echo -n "low-level disk access operations, which require additional
privelegies."
  echo ""
  echo ""
  failwith "You have to be root to perform installation operation."
fi

BTW, this logic will fail if I am trying to install with a user having
SUDO access. In that case the EUID is never 0 and the condition will
always fail even if I have SUDO access and I dont like doing: sudo su.
Its a security risk.

-- 
Ritesh
http://www.riteshn.com