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

2013-04-19 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Michael Lueck wrote: > > Without root/sudo perms to the share hosting server, I doubt I can > accomplish this. Am I correct? > > Disappointed indeed... :-( > Michael, If I were you, I'd do this: make clean Then locate the file: rexxapi\server\platform\unix\API

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

2013-04-19 Thread CVBruce
That's the issue. The user doesn't have root authority. Not to install or use ooRexx. Sent from an undisclosed location. On Apr 19, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:34:31 -0700 > CVBruce wrote: > >> Well except you need root authority to create user lightdm a

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

2013-04-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:34:31 -0700 CVBruce wrote: > Well except you need root authority to create user lightdm and the > directory in /var/run. > Exactly. But this happens during installation of a package (running yum, apt-get or whatever installation program...) which always require root autho

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

2013-04-19 Thread CVBruce
Well except you need root authority to create user lightdm and the directory in /var/run. Bruce On Apr 19, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > Hi Rony, > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:50:51 +0200 > "Rony G. Flatscher" wrote: > >> On 19.04.2013 00:32, René Jansen wrote: >>> Any port above 1024

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

2013-04-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi Rony, On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:50:51 +0200 "Rony G. Flatscher" wrote: > On 19.04.2013 00:32, René Jansen wrote: > > Any port above 1024 can be used (opened, written to) by non-root > > users. The PID file location is the problem. > How do other programs on Unix/Linux solve this problem (the PID

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

2013-04-19 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 19.04.2013 00:32, René Jansen wrote: > Any port above 1024 can be used (opened, written to) by non-root users. The > PID file location is > the problem. How do other programs on Unix/Linux solve this problem (the PID file), if they are started via USB sticks and the like without root permissio

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

2013-04-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi David, On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:46:44 -0500 David Ashley wrote: > 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 *