Re: [Nfsen-discuss] two problems with starting/stopping nfsen 1.2.4 as a normal (non root user)

[Peter H. <ha...@sw...>]

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Hi Maurizio,

- --On March 24, 2006 18:29:14 +0000 Maurizio Molina <mau...@da...> wrote:

| Hi,
| I wanted to report two problems with starting/stopping nfsen as a normal
| (non root user)
|
| ********** starting *************
| In the file install.pl , I still had to  comment out the following line
| in order to run the command as an ordinary user.
|
| # need to run as root
| # if ( !NfSen::root_process() ) {
| #       die "nfsen setup wants to run as root\n";
| # }

Commenting out is not recommended. Nfsen is designed to be installed as root
in order to set proper user/group and privileges in various directories.
Doing that as normal user has too many potential traps, where installation may fail.
Software installation as root is common and therefore not a problem.

|
|
| ********* stopping *******************
| In the nfsen.rc script I had to correct the test for the stop case as
| follows:
|
| --------- original ---------
|   stop)
|
|         if [ $RunUser != 'root' -o $RunUser != $RunUser ]; then
|                 echo "Hello '$RunUser'"
|                 echo "Only user '$USER' or 'root' wants to run $0
| start/stop";
|                 exit 1;
| ----------------------------
|
| -------corrected -----------
|         if [ $RunUser != 'root' -a $RunUser != $USER ]; then
|                 echo "Hello '$RunUser'"
|                 echo "Only user '$USER' or 'root' wants to run $0
| start/stop";
|                 exit 1;

Change accepted. However, new NfSen ( snapshot ) will no longer be based on
shell script rc file.

Regards

    - Peter
| -----------------------------
| Regards,
| Maurizio
|
|
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