On 09/26/13 22:05, pline...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi Alex, and thanks for your interest. > > (this post may be a dup - apologies if so - also, maybe belongs on general not > architecture, > please move if appropriate). > > > 3 points at the first glance. > > > 1. There is a lot of chown commands in firebird install files. They > > should not run for non-root install. > > > Understood - but I think that it should be feasible out of the box. > > > 2. Firebird can't be registered as a daemon in /etc without root access > > rights, i.e. this part of scripts should not run too. > > That's OK too - all I want is the ability to manually start and stop the > server - as I can easily do with PostgreSQL. MySQL offers a similar > capability - why not Firebird? If the Firebird project is attempting to > compete > with both of these, then it should be an option - e.g. for students who don't > have root access to their machines and the like. > > > > 3. And finally you must modify check for root. > > Again - I want it out of the box and I want it now! :) Seriously though, > I don't have the ability to mess around with these scripts - one never > knows what one is breaking.
You've asked what must be done - I answered :-) I've thought you wish to prepare a patch. > > > There is doc/README.build.posix.html. > > > Indeed there is - it just doens't tell me anything about how to install as > non-root. Definitely yes - this feature is not present. > > > But tell me - what a reason for readme's when you build from tarball > > using traditional ./configure && make? > > configure certainly has a --help switch. > > Indeed ./configure does have a help file - which IIRC, amazingly enough, I > read :), > but again, it has nothing about non-root installs. Once again definitely yes. > > I *_did_* use --prefix=$FIREBIRD/exedir and got files produced - it was when > I tried > to kick off fbserver that my problems began! > > Any help or input on this matter appreciated. You can't avoid it not modifying source code. That (agreed, foolish) check for "root, interbase, interbas or firebird" was removed in FB3. What about 2.5 - it's certainly feature-closed. As a workaround you may build classic server and use it in embedded mode. For single-user non-root access it will work OK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
