alanj;241869 Wrote: > > > I still have a question or three though ... > Why does AlienBBC require the slimserver user change? My other plugin > ( Extended Alarm ) works fine under root:root. > The whole of the rest of the slimserver directory tree is root:root. > Should that not also be slimserver:root to maybe avoid future problems > with other plugins? >
Sorry your reasoning, while somewhat logical, is too simplified... and wrong :) Just at look at the owner of all files in /usr/bin. Basically the /usr/share/Slimserver directory should only be owned by root and only writable by root. "slimserver" should have appropriate read/execute permissions. The location of writable user data is configurable (by default /var/cache/slimserver). It's a bit of a long story. If you're interested I can try to elaborate but... I think the problem with AlienBBC is mostly due to a bug in the AlienBBC package. > > I can find no user called "slimserver" on my system so it doesn't > appear to have been created. > Are you sure? slimserver is not a regular user account. It's basically a non-interactive user with no login shell. All is ok if 'cat /etc/passwd|grep slim' returns something. > > Obviously something went wrong in the install, is it worth uninstalling > and trying again? If so, what is the preferred method? Should I download > the .deb package and run that or should I use apt-get? >From what I've read I see no indication that something is wrong with your installation. apt-get is the same as installing the deb, with the addition that it automatically fetches the deb file if you added the repo. to /etc/apt/sources.list. Bjørn -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40130
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