On 09/03/10 09:42, Epshteyn, Eugene wrote:
Are there instructions for MeeGo similar to what exists for Debian (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html) about setting up daemons? I have some software that needs to run as a daemon, and I would like to learn what's the right way to do that on MeeGo (e.g., creating separate user/group, adding to init.d, what's a good place for the daemon to dump log files, etc.)
MeeGo currently assumes no new system-wide daemons will be added, we prefer that services are started on-demand where possible, and/or run from the user's session instead of running system-wide. D-bus activation is a popular and well-proven method for doing this.
Apart from that, MeeGo does support standard init.d scripts and you can most certainly write spec files to accomodate separate user/group ID's where this is appropriate, and this is recommended for basic security purposes. However, as I point out above, global always-on services are not something we'd like to see added to MeeGo.
Can I ask what service you're looking at? Auke _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
