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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