From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4466 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2003 14:22:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 4434 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2003 14:22:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygbert.vinschen.de) (80.132.97.230) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2003 14:22:40 -0000 Received: by cygbert.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7CE04580A8; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:22:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:23:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: getuid() and root Message-ID: <20030923142237.GC6489@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01463.txt.bz2 On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:44:22AM -0400, Kevin Van Workum wrote: > I'm trying to compile SOpenPBS on Cygwin. SOpenPBS is the Scalable Open > Portable Batch System (www.supercluster.org). And I need some advice. > > I have it compiled and running, with some ugly hacks. First, the daemons > want to run as user root. I can change this in the source to my login, but > I'd like to eventually make it available to others, so this is not a good > solution. I'd like it to work similar to sshd or cron and have it run > using cygrunsrv, but I don't know how to do that. Any advice? Anyone > interested in using SPBS on Cygwin and/or helping me to port it? Remove (or better ifdef out) all checks for the root user account. sshd is using the same approach. We don't have a root user concept so far so these test are a bit displaced on Cygwin. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/