Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:55:32 GMT From: James Snyder<jbsnyder@fanplastic.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/113335: biology/linux-foldingathome needs to run as root? Message-ID: <200706041455.l54EtWNL078589@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200706041500.l54F0CH0068867@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 113335 >Category: ports >Synopsis: biology/linux-foldingathome needs to run as root? >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 04 15:00:12 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: James Snyder >Release: RELENG 6 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD Hippo 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #3: Mon May 28 17:54:13 CDT 2007 jsnyder@Hippo:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP_amd i386 >Description: Upon installing FoldingAtHome I ran the software from a user account only to find that I was stuck in a loop of trying to enter configuration options. Shortly thereafter I realized that it was trying to write to /usr/local/share/foldingathome, and therefore requires being run as root to write there unless one changes permissions there. Seing as this isn't installed with a startup script for daemonization, and running as root seems a little excessive for this application, should this be adapted to run from a user account or set up to be able to start at boot? I'd be willing to throw a patch out, but I'm not sure which would be the best direction here to be consistent with FreeBSD :-) >How-To-Repeat: Install, run as user. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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