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Re: [patch] starting PCP as non root

To: ian holsman <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch] starting PCP as non root
From: Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:01:05 +1100 (EST)
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Thanks for your patch Ian. I suggest we apply this to the next
"dev" release of PCP which will be available shortly after pcp 2.3.0
comes out next week (with or without any final fixes from Mike,
depending on how busy he is to get the ksyms stuff finally fixed).

Thanks
-- Mark

On 8 Dec 2002, ian holsman wrote:

> Hi.
> I've had some success at running the PCP daemon as non root,
> and not requiring root to install it either (no /etc/ dependency)
> 
> This is a patch so that all files can be installed in a separate
> directory
> 
> I'm still working on a patch to get configure to automatically modify
> the shell scripts/startup to start as a distinct user check for pcp.env
> in a custom place.
> 
> Regards
> Ian
> 


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