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baion baion

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From: Nicosia, Cyprus

Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 48

Normal user unable to launch folding at home daemon

Hello everyone,
I recently tried to install folding at home on my arch linux system. I followed the wiki guide and everything went smoothly except from one thing. I edited the /etc/conf.d/foldingathome file to be able to launch the daemon as a normal user and not as root. However when I start folding at home I get this

andrew ~  $  /etc/rc.d/foldingathome start
:: Starting Folding@Home                                                                                              [BUSY] standard in must be a tty
/bin/touch: cannot touch `/var/run/daemons/foldingathome': Permission denied
                                                                                                                      [DONE]

As root I'm able to run it with no problems. Any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks in advance.

vit

Member

Registered: 2008-12-28

Posts: 79

Re: Normal user unable to launch folding at home daemon

you should change permissions to /var/run/daemons/foldingathome.
like this:
sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusergroup /var/run/daemons/foldingathome
or change this dir in config files somewhere at home dir.

baion baion

Member

From: Nicosia, Cyprus

Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 48

Re: Normal user unable to launch folding at home daemon

I tried this myself. It only works once and then if I try to stop or restart or do anything with the daemon I get the same error message.

baion baion

Member

From: Nicosia, Cyprus

Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 48

Re: Normal user unable to launch folding at home daemon

None knows any solution to my problem?