From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Bearcat Sandor (5bc5116ac37bd1bb955e0e75c5090065b2680cea)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:56:45 -0500
On Aug 19, Bearcat Sandor [scm AT mail.sourcemage.org] wrote:
> GIT changes to master grimoire by Bearcat Sandor
> <sourcemage AT feline-soul.com>:
>
> chat-im/jabberd/init.d/jabberd | 8 ++++----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> New commits:
> commit 5bc5116ac37bd1bb955e0e75c5090065b2680cea
> Author: Bearcat Sandor <sourcemage AT feline-soul.com>
> Commit: Bearcat Sandor <sourcemage AT feline-soul.com>
>
> altered jabberd init script to run as root. It will not start otherwise.
This is a bad idea... this is a network-listening daemon running as root.
Why does it need this? I know it hasn't always, I run it as jabber fine.
This is a major change, there should at least have been a bug discussion on
this.