Re: [netdisco-devel] [Netdisco] Error with maps in VMWare image

[Charles G. <wo...@ju...>]

Ok, thanks, that makes sense.   User netdisco has no home directory,
so not sure how to set the path for it.

>From a design standpoint, what's the best way to go about this?  The
work-around/band-aid would be the symlinks and republish the VM.

Thoughts?
Charles

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Max Baker <ma...@wa...> wrote:
> On 01/28/2010 03:10 PM, Charles Goldsmith wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure which user is actually running these commands when
>> running from the webpage and where/how to adjust the path for such.
>> I'm guessing it is the owner of apache, which in a default freebsd
>> install is www, which has no shell.
>>
>
> The graphing is launched two ways.
>
> CLI:  netdisco -g as current user
> Web Admin Panel : A database entry is added from the front-end as user
> apache, then the back end daemon running as user netdisco picks up the entry
> and launches Graphviz (twopi/dot/neato).
>
> Both ways, the actual call to graphviz is being launched in the back-end as
> user netdisco hopefully.
>
> -m
>