On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Robert Krüger wrote:
> At 15:41 08.04.00 , Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:
> >Has anyone successfully installed Orion on Linux? I've got it installed and
> >running as root.
>
> you mean on a port below 1024? that's not possible AFAIK unless you use a
> native library for the SUID stuff as is done in Jetty (or at least there
> exists a hack for Jetty). The orion gus have not announced if they are
> going to support something like this for the unix customers (which is
> extremely important for production work IMHO). if you find any other way,
> please let me know.
I think one suggesion could be to ask them to implement some generic
plugin system where you can add initializer hooks and stuff into Orion.
That way a third-party (like myself, I want the feature too) could write
and lessen the burden of supporting multitudes of different OS'es from the
Orion teams part.
