The scripts will use sudo if the RUNNER_USER does not match the user currently running the script. When building from src the RUNNER_USER variable is left blank. Packaged builds of Riak set this variable to "riak".
You can modify the packaged installed scripts to set this variable to a different user or leave it blank to run as whatever user ran the command. Using sudo in the packaged builds avoids a number of issues that crop up with file system permissions, however, a bug has been opened to look into changing the current behavior: https://issues.basho.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295 <https://issues.basho.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295>Thanks, Dan Daniel Reverri Developer Advocate Basho Technologies, Inc. d...@basho.com On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Wilson MacGyver <wmacgy...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
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