On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:20:30PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> writes: > > > The Open vSwitch run, log, and DB directories are installed as part of the > > normal `make install` process. However, this means they are created with > > user and group ownership that may conflict with the desired user. For > > example, running `make install` as root will install those files as > > root:root, whereas the runtime user desired may be openvswitch:openvswitch. > > > > Since these directories are automatically created as part of the ovs-ctl > > command, and with the correct user:group permissions, it makes sense to > > delay creation until these directories are actually required. > > > > Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> > > --- > > I was about to submit this with a fixup to the rhel side, but I dug into > an older mailing list discussion where at least it seems like Ben wanted > the make install to create these runtime directories[1], presumably to > alleviate concerns with adding these mkdir type directives to each > distro. > > I'm not sure how best to proceed with this effort, since I want to > enable non-root ovs 'out of the box'. If that has to be done > distro-specific (and I should simply modify the .spec file for this), > then that may be acceptable for me. I think the issue encountered in > [1] is due to not using ovs-ctl to start the daemons. Perhaps it will > still be required from the fedora side to create these directories - I'm > not sure. > > Thoughts? > > 1: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2013-July/273197.html
I'm OK with making ovs-ctl the primary way to create the directories, if we document in Documentation/intro/install/general.rst how to use ovs-ctl. Currently we only document there how to start all the daemons by hand; that once made sense but it seems dated now. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
