On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:34:26PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> 
> > Well, in nfreenetd (a C implementation of a Freenet node), I am going
> > to store the configuration file at /etc/nfreenetd.conf and store the
> > datastore under the /var/spool/freenet directory (with the datastore
> > index being at /var/spool/freenet/index).  The reason for this
> > arrangement is that I think that a Freenet node should be treated more
> > as a system service (like mail transfer agent, print spooler, or a
> > NNTP server) than a user level program.
> 
> Then you'll have to be root to run it. I hate programs that I have to be
> root to run. I have accounts but not root access on many machines and
> would often like to run programs on these machines.

It doesn't have to be root.  It just has to be under daemon or any
other user which can read /etc/nfreenetd.conf and can read and write
the contents of the /var/spool/freenet directory (which is not
necessarily root).  I think that nfreenetd should run under daemon or
freenet (yay, yet another item I have to add to /etc/passwd!).  Of
course, setting up nfreenetd on a system may very well require root
access (depends on how the system is configured and how the file
system is set up).

-- 
Travis Bemann
Sendmail is still screwed up on my box.
My email address is really bemann at execpc.com.
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