Ubuntu Starter Guide - gnump3d

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 23 17:07:22 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 11:07 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:15:18 +0000
> Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> <snipped stuff>
> 
> > > Replace with the following line
> > > 
> > >  
> > > user = root     ####  <----- becomes:   user = nobody
> > > 
> > > </quoted bits>
> > > 
> > > I haven't found a bug on launchpad for this - perhaps it isn't a bug but a
> > > decision ? I have set the user to "nobody" as recommended in the config
> > > file, which appears to work fine with a test file (in /home/music which has
> > > by default root ownership with 755 permissions.)
> > 
> > It's likely to be left over from ubuntuguide, your method sounds quite
> > solid, we can change this (if you'd like to provide a patch, that would
> > be great).
> > 
> > Matt
> 
> It's actually a one word change AFAICS -   s/root/nobody
> 
> Does that require a formal patch? Excuse my ignorance...

Having said I would fix this bug, I actually can't find the relevant
section in the 6.04 Server Starter Guide (we have split the guide into a
desktop and server version). Bhuvan, was the gnump3d howto removed from
the serverguide, or am I just missing it?

Matt
-- 
mdke at ubuntu.com
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