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need more graceful failure when running as root

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Due to some installation problems, the customer tried to run /opt/NorthScale/bin/northscale as root and things broke. The logs were spewing with memcached crash messages and it took a little while to diagnose.

Assuming that someone is going to try and do that again, we should put in some better messaging saying that you can't do that.

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Sean Lynch (Inactive) added a comment -
This definitely wont' be happening in beta2.
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Sean Lynch (Inactive) added a comment - This definitely wont' be happening in beta2.
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Sean Lynch (Inactive) added a comment -
This should be fixed in the init script.
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Sean Lynch (Inactive) added a comment - This should be fixed in the init script.
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Perry Krug added a comment -
I don't think the problem is within the init script. The problem here is when running the actual binary as root...the init script works just fine.
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Perry Krug added a comment - I don't think the problem is within the init script. The problem here is when running the actual binary as root...the init script works just fine.
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Sean Lynch (Inactive) added a comment -
/opt/northscale/bin/northscale is a script that's put there by the RPM installer.

Reassigning back to the correct component.
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Sean Lynch (Inactive) added a comment - /opt/northscale/bin/northscale is a script that's put there by the RPM installer. Reassigning back to the correct component.
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Perry Krug added a comment -
Sean and I discussed the a bit and agreed that a simple check within the /opt/northscale/bin/northscale script to make sure that it's not being run as root is appropriate.
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Perry Krug added a comment - Sean and I discussed the a bit and agreed that a simple check within the /opt/northscale/bin/northscale script to make sure that it's not being run as root is appropriate.
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Perry Krug added a comment -
Created an attachment (id=418)
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Perry Krug added a comment - Created an attachment (id=418) logs
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Perry Krug added a comment -
(From update of attachment 418)
Sorry, attached to wrong bug.
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Perry Krug added a comment - (From update of attachment 418) Sorry, attached to wrong bug.
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Sean Lynch (Inactive) added a comment -
Bumping all non-release-blocker bugs to P3 in preparation for removing the ReleaseBlocker keyword.
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Sean Lynch (Inactive) added a comment - Bumping all non-release-blocker bugs to P3 in preparation for removing the ReleaseBlocker keyword.
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Perry Krug added a comment -
Requested by FormSpring.
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Perry Krug added a comment - Requested by FormSpring.
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Perry Krug added a comment -
tagged: releasenotes
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
part of diagnostics improvements
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - part of diagnostics improvements

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  • Assignee:
    Steve Yen
    Reporter:
    Perry Krug
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