Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: inittab and daemontools in Intsall Documentation

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9: Re: inittab and daemontools in Intsall Documentation (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 04/23/03 06:02 PM
And running AOLserver as unix user "nsadmin", the same user that owned the AOLserver binaries, wasn't exactly ideal either. But it's easy and simple, and of course much better than running as root. (But really, I've never heard of anybody leaving AOLserver running as root. The -u switch is so easy, everyone uses it.)
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10: Re: inittab and daemontools in Intsall Documentation (response to 9)
Posted by Bruno Mattarollo on 04/23/03 06:18 PM

Well, actually nsd won't run as root... 

[23/Apr/2003:18:17:27][1580.16384][-main-] Fatal: nsmain: server will not run as root; must specify '-u username' parameter
😊 My 2 cents,

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12: Re: inittab and daemontools in Intsall Documentation (response to 10)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 04/24/03 07:48 AM
Good point Bruno, I'd forgotten that!  :)