On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:25:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:42:54PM +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:54:36PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:43:18PM +0100, arno wrote: > > > > I installed sobby, and tried to use part of your patch to make sobby > > > > run as a > > > > daemon. I found a few problems with your init script: > > > The init script is not acceptable as-is, which is why it is not included > > > (yet). > > Perhaps you could give the contributor some feedback regarding the script, > > so that they can resolve your concerns with it? > > It does some things the wrong way, in a way that caused data loss on > Canonical's servers when they deployed it. I will rework and add an > improved script ASAP (maybe late December). > > The point why I did not see it as that critical is that most extended > features that users desired (like autosave directory, script dir and > stuff) are not sensible to use when sobby is run as a service. (I.e. it > should not be run as root, but I don't know if nobody's an option > neither.) > > So it works perfectly well when started as a user, deploying it as a > service just needs some more thoughts and maybe improvements in the > software.
The natural solution would be to have the sobby package create a sobby user, and specify default global locations for the autosave directory, etc. This is how most other packages handle similar situations. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
