[olug] Murmur in Fedora 16

[Brian Roberson]

It seems to be running as:

<C>2011-12-12 09:02:26.891 Successfully switched to uid 993

grep 993 /etc/passwd





On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:33 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> I suspected that might be the case, but the package didn't create a murmur
> user. I didn't know definitively however that it should have.
>
> I'll file a bug report.
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Sam Flint <harmonicnm7h at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just as in Apache run murmurd as user murmur
> >
> > -- Sam Flint,
> > Have a happy Hannukah!
> > On Dec 29, 2011 11:19 PM, "T. J. Brumfield" <enderandrew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Murmur is an open source voice chat server like Teamspeak or Ventrillo.
> > >
> > > It has a pre-packaged sqlite that comes with it. The documentation says
> > you
> > > shouldn't need to do anything, as it should just work out of the box.
> And
> > > as this is a shipped package with Fedora, I'd assume the package should
> > > mostly work out of the box.
> > >
> > > I can make the file writable by a non-root user, but I'm not sure what
> > user
> > > the daemon should end up running as. Non-root users don't have access
> to
> > > the log file, and it won't start as root. The service bundled with the
> > > Fedora package is an old init script, not one of the new systemd
> scripts.
> > > I'm wondering if I just need to update it.
> > >
> > > It seems like the shipped package won't even start out of the box.
> Fedora
> > > doesn't have any additional documentation for Murmur on their end, and
> > the
> > > official Murmur documentation hasn't been very helpful.
> > >
> > > I was curious if anyone on the list has either run Murmur, or converted
> > an
> > > old init script to a new systemd script for Fedora 16.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't know what "murmurd" does, so I'll apply some generic
> > > > troubleshooting questions:
> > > > > <C>2011-12-12 09:02:26.891 Successfully switched to uid 993
> > > > > <F>2011-12-12 09:02:26.912 ServerDB: Failed initialization: unable
> to
> > > > open
> > > > > database file Error opening database
> > > >
> > > > Are the DB communication strings setup properly?  Is the DB started
> > > > and listening on the port as "murmurd" expects (i.e. encryption
> > > > settings, authentication, etc)?  Is the "UID 993" able to connect to
> > > > the DB port (it's possible SELinux or other security tool is
> > > > restricting it)?
> > > >
> > > > > I can start murmurd as a non-root user, but then I get an error
> that
> > it
> > > > > can't write to /var/log/mumble-server/mumble-
> > > > > server.log
> > > >
> > > > That's probably because the file (mumble-server.log) and/or the
> > > > directory (/var/log/mumble-server/) are not writable by the non-root
> > > > user.  If you delete the .log file, then "chmod a+rwx
> > > > /var/log/mumble-server/", the non-root user should be able to use it.
> > > >
> > > > Dan
> > > >
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