On 9 June 2011 00:05, Jacob Fenwick <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems like I must be root to start haproxy. > > I know that I can add a user line in global so that the process will change > to say it is running as a non-root user once it is running, but it seems > like I still need to be root to actually start it, or restart it. > > Is there any way around this? > > I don't think there is, and if there was, you would be unable to listen on any ports <1024, as only root can do that.
Graeme.
