On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:05:57PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote: > ovsdb-server gives an option to specify the ctl socket path with --unixctl > option. So, this and specifying the pid file path make it possible to run > this from a non-root account or without sudo. Is there a way that > ovs-vswiitchd can also be run without sudo? Right now, I get this error: > ovs-vswitchd: could not initialize control socket > /usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.20342.ctl (Permission denied).
You can specify the OVS_RUNDIR environment variable. There are other reasons that ovs-vswitchd normally requires root, so it might not help. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
