[Gluster-users] how to run gluster as non-root user?

[Wei Dong]

I'm interested in this too.  I think other than access control, there's 
no reason preventing gluster from running as a normal user.  I'm 
wondering if there's someway of disabling the access control part to 
bypass this error.

- Wei

G Feng wrote:
> [aimi at centos ~]$ /sbin/glusterfsd -f ~/vol/glusterfsd.vol --debug
> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] D [glusterfsd.c:339:_get_specfp] glusterfs: loading
> volume file /home/aimi/vol/glusterfsd.vol
> ================================================================================
> Version      : glusterfs 2.0.2 built on Jul  7 2009 14:55:51
> TLA Revision : 07019da2e16534d527215a91904298ede09bb798
> Starting Time: 2009-09-16 16:42:24
> Command line : /sbin/glusterfsd -f /home/aimi/vol/glusterfsd.vol --debug
> PID          : 6240
> System name  : Linux
> Nodename     : centos.localdomain
> Kernel Release : 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5
> Hardware Identifier: i686
>
> Given volfile:
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   1: volume posix
>   2:   type storage/posix
>   3:   option directory /home/aimi/new
>   4: end-volume
>   5:
>   6: volume locks
>   7:   type features/locks
>   8:   subvolumes posix
>   9: end-volume
>  10:
>  11: volume brick
>  12:   type performance/io-threads
>  13:   option thread-count 8
>  14:   subvolumes locks
>  15: end-volume
>  16:
>  17: volume server
>  18:   type protocol/server
>  19:   option transport-type tcp
>  20:   option auth.addr.brick.allow *
>  21:   subvolumes brick
>  22: end-volume
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] D [xlator.c:634:xlator_set_type] xlator: dlsym(notify)
> on /usr/local/lib/glusterfs/2.0.2/xlator/features/locks.so: undefined
> symbol: notify -- neglecting
> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] D [xlator.c:634:xlator_set_type] xlator: dlsym(notify)
> on /usr/local/lib/glusterfs/2.0.2/xlator/performance/io-threads.so:
> undefined symbol: notify -- neglecting
> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] D [glusterfsd.c:1179:main] glusterfs: running in pid
> 6240
> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] C [posix.c:3864:init] posix: Extended attribute not
> supported, exiting.
> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] E [xlator.c:736:xlator_init_rec] xlator:
> Initialization of volume 'posix' failed, review your volfile again
> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] E [glusterfsd.c:498:_xlator_graph_init] glusterfs:
> initializing translator failed
> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] E [glusterfsd.c:1191:main] glusterfs: translator
> initialization failed.  exiting
>
>
> It could work with the same setting when I run it as root.
>
> how to run gluster as non-root user?
>
>   
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