are you installing it from src? because I run it as a non-root user and it never requested sudo
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mojito Sorbet <mojitot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
