Subj : Re: Synchronet for FreeBS
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Christine
Date : Wed Aug 10 2005 05:50 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

In my case, and possibly the cases of other paranoid unix people,
running anything with root is a something to do only if there is
absolutely no other way... even something that drops the privileges
immediately, makes me nervous... I don't run apache, sendmail, etc as
root... and the few things that do run as root, I run jailed... because
of that paranoia thing...

What I did to make the sbbs.pid work, is this :
touch /home/sbbs/logs/sbbs.pid
then with a quick jump to root privs,
ln -s /home/sbbs/logs/sbbs.pid /var/run/sbbs.pid

It works fine, and synchronet is never run with root privileges, so I'm
a happy camper... but that just feels inelegant to me :)  So, I'll
recompile and remove the link...

The reason to want to change it, is to have better control of access
privileges, make it easier to run the entire process in a jail,
virtualize it, or even run more than one instance at a time if you want
to run two or more synchronet bbs's on the same server, without
corrupting the sbbs.pid.... right now, if I run two synchronet bbs's,
say with MySyncBBS.com on telnet port 2323 and SuperSecretSyncBBS.com
on telnet port 3232, the sbbs.pid is in trouble... unless of course, I
recompile it to a relative pathname, or use an envariable, which I will
probably do because I'm strange and thing envariables are all cute and
cuddly :)

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