Mark, the problem is not having to su - to install (and it actually does run without doing this) but to have the process running as root - for no reason.
best regards, René Jansen/ On 15 jul 2009, at 01:13, Mark Miesfeld wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:03 PM, David Ashley<[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Ok, I'm convinced. rxapi does not need to run as the root user on >> *nix >> systems. It has nothing it needs to do which would require root >> privileges. >> >> So the question becomes should we implement this change prior to the >> release of 4.0 or wait until the next release? > > I am not in favor of making a change now, well actually I'm against > it. > > I am in favor of having an install that doesn't require su to root to > install, but I think we should get this release out of the door and > plan on doing a follow up release in 3 months to fix bugs I know will > be reported and straighten out details like this one. > > As far as I can see, the current 3.2.0 Linux rpms and debs can not be > installed unless you su to root. So what's the problem? There hasn't > been a single user complaint about this in 2 years. > > In the current 4.0.0, you have to su to root to install the rpm or to > install the deb. After that there is no problem. This situation is > no different than it has been. > > -- > Mark Miesfeld > > > The code changes are >> small but the testing could be a problem (although I do not expect >> any). >> >> Opinions welcome. >> >> David Ashley >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited >> time, >> vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) >> will have >> the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See >> full prize >> details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge >> _______________________________________________ >> Oorexx-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited > time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will > have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See > full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
