ports/113335: biology/linux-foldingathome needs to run as root?

[James Snyder]

>Number:         113335
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       biology/linux-foldingathome needs to run as root?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 04 15:00:12 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     James Snyder
>Release:        RELENG 6
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD Hippo 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #3: Mon May 28 17:54:13 CDT 2007     jsnyder at Hippo:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP_amd  i386
>Description:
Upon installing FoldingAtHome I ran the software from a user account only to find that I was stuck in a loop of trying to enter configuration options.  Shortly thereafter I realized that it was trying to write to /usr/local/share/foldingathome, and therefore requires being run as root to write there unless one changes permissions there.  Seing as this isn't installed with a startup script for daemonization, and running as root seems a little excessive for this application, should this be adapted to run from a user account or set up to be able to start at boot?

I'd be willing to throw a patch out, but I'm not sure which would be the best direction here to be consistent with FreeBSD :-)
>How-To-Repeat:
Install, run as user.
>Fix:


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