newscache: Thread: Running without superuser privileges

Is it possible to run newscache without superuser privileges? If so, what
configuration options should be used facilitate logging? I can't seem to get
it up and running and it doesn't seem to output any logging info.

Thanks

I realized I didn't mention that I want to 'install' and run, both without
root.

No problem with nonroot environments. I used this in combination with the HP Testdrive to test NewsCache on variuos platforms. For compiling use:

1. socket:
./autogen
./configure --prefix=/home/none/build-test
make
make install

2. NewsCache
export LIBRARY_PATH=/home/none/build-test/lib
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/none/build-test/include
./autogen
./configure --prefix=/home/none/build-test
make
make install

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/stb/

Edit etc/newscache.conf and modify
CachePort #12000
SpoolDirectory /home/none/build-test/var/newscache
PidFile /home/none/build-test/var/run

Create the necessary directories and run Newscache with sbin/newscache. Logging is done to syslog. You can change this to files.

Best regards
Herbert Straub

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Is it possible to run newscache without superuser privileges? If so, what
configuration options should be used facilitate logging? I can't seem to get
it up and running and it doesn't seem to output any logging info.

Thanks

On 2/15/06, Straub Herbert ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> No problem with nonroot environments. I used this in combination with the
> HP Testdrive to test NewsCache on variuos platforms. For compiling use:



Thanks very much for the help. Works great. I think my problem was that I
didn't create the target directories for logging.