[Oorexx-devel] Segmentation fault attempting to build 3.2

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings, Well backtracking attempting to build ooRexx 3.2 to my new target installation directory fails make at this point. I made sure to wipe from my environment variables all references to ooRexx 4.1.2 and logged in with a new SSH session. I believe our provider has done a Linux upgrade s

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-18 Thread René Jansen
Any port above 1024 can be used (opened, written to) by non-root users. The PID file location is the problem. René. On 18 apr. 2013, at 23:47, Mark Miesfeld wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:36 PM, CVBruce wrote: > > I may be wrong, but I thought that root was only required if the port was

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-18 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:36 PM, CVBruce wrote: > I may be wrong, but I thought that root was only required if the port was > below a certain number, perhaps 1000. Anything over this number could be > opened by ordinary users. Did I remember this incorrectly, or has this > changed. > Bruce,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-18 Thread CVBruce
I may be wrong, but I thought that root was only required if the port was below a certain number, perhaps 1000. Anything over this number could be opened by ordinary users. Did I remember this incorrectly, or has this changed. Bruce Sent from an undisclosed location. On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:15

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Lueck
David Ashley wrote: > You might try marking the rexxapi program as a sudo application and see > if that fixes the problem. Without root/sudo perms to the share hosting server, I doubt I can accomplish this. Am I correct? Disappointed indeed... :-( Sincerely, -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data System

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-18 Thread David Ashley
Sorry, but root permission is required for running the rexxapi program on a *nix box. This is because it opens a local port for client connections and only programs that run with root permissions can open a server port on *nix systems. This is one of the restrictions that raised it ugly head when

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Lueck
Well, based on this... David Ashley wrote: > Oh, there is one other point that may need to be cleared up. > > If you are not making an RPM or DEB file and instead are performing a > "make install" to install ooRexx then you can feel free to supply any > prefix you want because nothing the prefix w