On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:07:53 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
> 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
>> My concerns with this, other than my abilities, are:
>
>> 1. Showing proper respect to the guy who pioneered the effort to date,
>> and who may simply be out of town. (This disrespect would be alleviated
>> if there
Hans de Graaff wrote:
> A possible solution would be for you (or someone) to become a proxy
> maintainer, meaning that you'd get the bug reports and provide new
> ebuilds, and a developer (most likely someone from the backup herd) would
> review it and put it in the tree.
Hi Hans, thanks for th
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
> One of the challenging things about the BackupPC ebuild is that the
> program needs to be configured to work with its own instance of apache
> (run as user backuppc), and I think none of the ebuild contributors
> are all too sure of the standard
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> (Apologies if this has already been mentioned)
> Another (maybe less intrusive, although slightly less efficient) option
> is to install the BackupPC_Admin CGI as setuid so that it runs as user
> backuppc (this is how I run BackupPC-2.1.2-r1). This does not require a
> dif
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Yes, I am aware of that. The BackupPC ebuild should support either
> way, as there is a speedup of about 15x (according to the BackupPC
> author) when running the webserver as user backuppc. There should be
> a USE variable controlling this. A
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> Ah ok, I just thought it would be easier, to get things going and catch
> up with upstream, to release an ebuild that only supports the suid mode
> of operation, and then, taking the necessary time, improve it in future
> releases, rather than supporting all the features r
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Yeah, that's the kinds of differences of opinion that are in the bug
> report, which is part of what makes this a more difficult ebuild to
> write. Things like libraries are really easy because it's just a
> configure make make install, but here
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> (btw, do gentoo initscripts
> support starting multiple instances of a daemon, perhaps under different
> users and using different parameters? I'd not bet on it, but I may be
> wrong. If it's not supported, waiting for baselayout to support this may
> take a long time, so
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
> It's not too hard to start a separate instance of apache. You just
> copy /etc/init.d/apache2 to, say, /etc/init.d/backuppcApache2.
> Likewise copy the /etc/conf.d scripts, and change in the backuppc one
> the reference to the httpd.conf to, sa
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