Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

[Manfred L. <man...@we...>]

Hi Rony,

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:50:51 +0200
"Rony G. Flatscher" <Ron...@wu...> wrote:

> On 19.04.2013 00:32, René Jansen wrote:
> > Any port above 1024 can be used (opened, written to) by non-root
> > users. The PID file location is the problem.
> How do other programs on Unix/Linux solve this problem (the PID
> file), if they are started via USB sticks and the like without root
> permissions?
> 
> ---rony
> 

I have an example on my linux box where a program isn't root and
starts a server. It works like this:

lightdm is a display manager. When the lightdm package gets installed
then a directory /var/run/lightdm will be created like this:

drwxrwxr-x  5 lightdm lightdm  100 Apr 12 13:40 lightdm/

Now the lightdm server could run as user lightdm and has authority to
put its pid file below /var/run/lightdm/



-- 
Manfred