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Troy_Carlson
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February 23, 2009
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FMIS on Linux without root access?

  • February 23, 2009
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Hi everyone,
We are in the process of installing Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 in our corporate environment. I have been told that I will not be given root level permissions, and asked what type of access (lesser than this) I require.

Can anyone give me excellent reasons why I need to have root access as the primary developer controlling this environment on a day-to-day basis? For instance for FMIS 2, I found this gem - "Using the fmsmgr utility - Use the fmsmgr utility to perform basic management tasks for the Flash Admin Service running on Linux systems. You must be a root user to use the fmsmgr utility."

Thank you thank you

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    Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Frogmonkey,

    Verbatim from eng:
    Binding to ports under 1024. One must use root to start the edge.

    So you need to have root access to start FMS if it's configured as an edge server.

    HTH!
    Jody

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    Anonymous
    February 24, 2009
    Hi FrogMonkey,

    You also need root access to run the fmsmgr utility on FMIS 3.5. Other than that... hmmmm... you need proper access to map directories to network drives (if that's how you're configuring content storage). More info here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashMediaServer/3.5_AdminGuide/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119f2925e64-7fc7.html.

    I don't know of any other reasons you'd need root access, but I'll check with engineering...

    Jody
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    Troy_CarlsonAuthor
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    February 24, 2009
    ... just to confuse the issue I changed my onscreen name today - but you are very welcome to call me "Frogmonkey"

    Thank you so much Jody, any additional info you can dig up would be greatly appreciated. If I make a mistake at this step I'll be paying for impact assessments etc... every time I need to do something minor.
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