Re: [Krang-devel] non-root installations of Krang

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Kim Scheibel wrote:

> Yes I agree with all of that. The only additional thing I had to
> consider was init scripts which are of course currently installing in
> /etc/init.d (at least for Fedora). I suggest that if the user installing
> Krang doesn't have the necessary privileges to write to /etc/init.d then
> it prompts for an alternative location, defaulting to something like
> InstallPath/init.d? Or do you prefer to follow the current approach of
> terminating the install with a useful error message?

I think it would be good enough to just print a warning about not
being able to setup Krang to start on boot.  I imagine that most
non-root installs will be for evaluation which shouldn't require an
init script anyway.

-sam