On Friday 15 December 2006 13:36, Vihan Pandey wrote:
> there was(at that time at least) a binary which could successfully run on a
> GNU/Linux system. i have tried it out and it worked. The only tragic part
> was that you HAD to run it as root AARG !!! A pity the authors never
> bothered studying SUID, SGID and the concept of running a service as a user
> with a /bin/false shell. They even created a very badly written init script
> ;-)

Yeah, duh. I edited the init script the Gentoo way ;) Actually, maybe the 
Debian way too, since I used start-stop-daemon

> > [B.E. in EXTC]
>
> i give you even more sympathy ;-) Sorry, i say that to ANYONE who makes it
> a point to mention they are a B.E ;-)

I make it a point to mention that I'm SSC from a Marathi medium school.

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