Hi Ben, Using OVS_RUNDIR works for me. But are you saying running vswitchd as non root will cause other issues in the functionality?
Thanks, Aish On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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