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Re: Error -3212 ???

>> Or, simply
>> require that the application must be started by a process with root
>> privileges (a user logged in as root, for example),
>
> The typical Mac OS X system doesn't have root enabled,
> so this could be awkward.

Well, this may be, but we were talking about a server application, and I was
drawing an analogy to the Apache web server. Unless the Apache server
installed with Mac OS X uses a significantly different configuration from
the one I installed on my Solaris machine, the web server is started at boot
time as root and later sets its UID to something else (nobody). Also, I
thought I heard that anything put in Startup Items will be run as root,
which seems analogous to the old /etc/rc script on older BSD systems or the
/etc/init.d/ stuff on Solaris.

I admit it's been a while since I worked with Mac OS X. I guess I need to
keep reminding myself that it's neither Unix nor Mac, as I've come to know
them anyway.

--
Craig Schamp

References: 
 >Re: Error -3212 ??? (From: Peter Sichel <email@hidden>)



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