Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Looking around a little bit on the Internet, I stumbled over: http://superuser.com/questions/454449/linux-alternative-places-where-to-store-pid-file-instead-of-var-run where one posting says: *In short*: you could store it anywhere (say, |/tmp| or |/var/tmp|), but |/var/run| is the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Lueck
Mark Miesfeld wrote: Change the code to this: *#undef* RUN_AS_DAEMON #ifdef RUN_AS_DAEMON #define OOREXX_PIDFILE /var/run/ooRexx.pid bool run_as_daemon = true; #else #define OOREXX_PIDFILE /*your_home_directory*/ooRexx.pid bool run_as_daemon = *true*; #endif Then rebuild and install

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings, I started with a fresh unpack of the source code I made the suggested changes Oh, and I removed path references to oorexx, then logged in and insured that export | grep oorexx returned nothing make blows up here: mv -f .deps/librexx_la-CallbackDispatcher.Tpo

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Lueck
Michael Lueck wrote: Greetings, I started with a fresh unpack of the source code I made the suggested changes Oh, and I removed path references to oorexx, then logged in and insured that export | grep oorexx returned nothing make blows up here: Oh... I see there were a few more edits in

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings ooRexx developers, I will allow ooRexx to speak for itself... (uiserver):u40009095:~ which rexx /kunden/homepages/35/d157794216/htdocs/opt/oorexx/bin/rexx (uiserver):u40009095:~ rexx -v Open Object Rexx Version 4.1.2 Build date: Apr 20 2013 Addressing Mode: 32 Copyright (c) IBM

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:05:18 -0700 CVBruce cvbr...@gmail.com wrote: That's the issue. The user doesn't have root authority. Not to install or use ooRexx. I don't understand what you are after. On a Linux system a software will be installed by an administrator who surely does have root

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings Manfred, Manfred Lotz wrote: I don't understand what you are after. On a Linux system a software will be installed by an administrator who surely does have root authority. This is the way it works on *nix systems in general. The configure process supports the keyword prefix to

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 20.04.2013 17:46, Manfred Lotz wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:05:18 -0700 CVBruce cvbr...@gmail.com wrote: That's the issue. The user doesn't have root authority. Not to install or use ooRexx. I don't understand what you are after. On a Linux system a software will be installed by an

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:06:50 +0200 Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at wrote: On 20.04.2013 17:46, Manfred Lotz wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:05:18 -0700 CVBruce cvbr...@gmail.com wrote: That's the issue. The user doesn't have root authority. Not to install or use ooRexx.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi Michael, On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:58:44 -0400 Michael Lueck mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com wrote: Greetings Manfred, Manfred Lotz wrote: I don't understand what you are after. On a Linux system a software will be installed by an administrator who surely does have root authority. This is

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread CVBruce
For example, you are using a commercial web hosting company, which will not install any software that is not on their list of supported software, and you have some Rexx cgi scripts you want to use. On Apr 20, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: - Another use case are portable apps on

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings Mandred, Manfred Lotz wrote: But I described it in my previous post in order to show that for a private installation the pid file has to reside in the private directory tree. Basically my conclusion is that there is no problem with pid file if oorexx is configured properly. Quite

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Any progress on non-root perms an ooRexx 4.x?

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings Bruce, CVBruce wrote: For example, you are using a commercial web hosting company, which will not install any software that is not on their list of supported software, and you have some Rexx cgi scripts you want to use. Yes, something like that. Only with our server, httpd runs on