My question is not about installing it as root, but running it as root. The "riak start" script immediately tries to do a sudo. Why is this necessary? If I could configure it so the data files do not go into /var, for example.
It seems to me this is independent from how I built or installed it. On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 10:43 -0400, Alexander Sicular wrote: > The only part of the Riak 'world' that probably is easiest installed as root > is erlang. Although you could install erlang as non root. Once you have > erlang installed, you can compile riak as non root and it works fine. > > -alexander > > On Oct 11, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Mojito Sorbet wrote: > > > If I do not want Riak to run as 'root', do I have to run it from a > > compiled installation rather than the binary installation? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > riak-users mailing list > > riak-users@lists.basho.com > > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
