catalyst as non-root

Hi!

I'd like to use catalyst as non-root user. I tried with
fakeroot  
(1.7) and i get the following errors:

tar: ./dev/tty42: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted
...
tar: ./dev/ttywa: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot
be  
preloaded: ignor
ed.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot
be  
preloaded: ignor
ed.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot
be  
preloaded: ignor
ed.

Any idea what i can do to get it running?

Did anybody else try running catalyst as non-root and can
give me  
hints on how to do it?

Thanks,
	Philipp

Philipp Riegger wrote:
> Did anybody else try running catalyst as non-root and
can give me hints 
> on how to do it?

We don't support catalyst running as non-root. If you want
to do it, you're on 
your own.

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On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:36 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Philipp Riegger wrote:
> > Did anybody else try running catalyst as non-root
and can give me hints 
> > on how to do it?
> 
> We don't support catalyst running as non-root. If you
want to do it, you're on 
> your own.

When catalyst was designed, nobody thought about running it
as a
non-root user.  Well, I'm interested in adding support for
running as a
non-root user.  The problem we're definitely going to face
is device
node creation.  I've spoken with solar about using fakeroot
and it is
something that we would like to pursue for the next
catalyst
incarnation.  Of course, we want catalyst to use
fakeroot/chroot based
on catalyst.conf settings, so we can't just replace the
current code.
This is a planned feature for the catalyst 2.1 branch, but
it hasn't
been started yet, so it'll be some time before we get to
this point.

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