that you need a user messagebus is not mentioned in README

Kristof Vansant de_lupus at pandora.be
Wed Aug 4 04:49:41 PDT 2004


Still I think that mentioning it in INSTALL or README also isn't a bad
idea...

I think it exits don't know for sure

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 09:30, Olivier Andrieu wrote:
>  Kristof Vansant [Wed, 04 Aug 2004]:
>  > 
>  > That you need a user messagebus is not mentioned in README
> 
> but it is mentioned in the man page ...
> 
>  > when you start with --system option (see /etc/dbus-1/system.conf)
>  > nor is there mentioned which rights this user should have.
>  > Can you plz add some info about this in the README.
>  > Like:
>  > system.conf default will try to run dbus-daemon-1 as user messagebus
>  > running as root is a bad idea
>  > this user should have following rights
>  > can be created with following command: foo
>  > 
>  > Because the user does not exist on my system the daemon instantly
>  > crashes (without any err output btw)
> 
> it *crashes* or it *exits* ?
> 
> There's no error because once the daemon has forked, standard file
> descriptors are closed (redirected to /dev/null). Use the variable
> DBUS_DEBUG_OUTPUT to prevent that, or remove the <fork/> from the
> config file.



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