chroot and runlevel

tobzter · Post by **tobzter** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:12 am

ok hi there my first post on your nice forum...
1. i'd like to run eggdrop chrooted how?
2. i'd like to create an eggdrop rc-script how? eggdrop won't run as root and the executable can't be followed by userchange variables like -u (user) or sth.

i am using gentoo linux.. if this helps

Dedan · Post by **Dedan** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:52 am

edited

tobzter · Post by **tobzter** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:20 am

jop that's exactly my problem.. how do i start eggdrop in a runlevel as a non-root... i don't wan't this crappy crontab start way

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:42 am

Can i ask why you call it a crappy crontab start way.

Crontab is a defacto standard.

An rc-script is a one off thing, should your bot crash, you are manualy required to clear the error and restart start it.

Can I ask what benefits you hope to see out of a chroot start of eggdrop.

Other than the ability to startup and listen to ports below 1024, there is no real purpose.

tobzter · Post by **tobzter** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:37 pm

sorry i didn't want to offend you crontab users

i never heard eggdrop was declared as a save program that's why i would like to run it chrooted... maybe paranoia but i dislike any security holes...

and ok i see why you are using crontab as starter... nevertheless i want to know how to use eggdrop with a runlevel script... intending to for example use eggdrop only in a specific runlevel...

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:22 am

Make the startup script start up the bot using "su".

su eggdropuser -c "eggdrop eggdrop.conf"