On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Kostas Georgiou wrote: > > It doesn't need to bind privileged ports or anything else > that requires root privileges as far as I can tell
with the default configuration it needs root privileges so it can setuid to whatever is configured to run as (nobody upstream, ganglia in fedora and configured using the setuid_username entry in gmetad.conf) the configuration option "setuid off" could be used to workaround this code or the code could be enhanced (as shown by the patch posted) to workaround this issue. the same applies to gmond except that the configuration to use there is the global boolean: setuid = no Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
