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adrian · 26-12-2021, 15:14

After updating minimserver from 2.0 to 2.1 I also updated minimwatch. (It wasn't clear if the order mattered here.)

It seems like I have minimwatch installed "incorrectly", but I'm not sure what the intent is. I have it installed, owned by root, in /opt/minimwatch. When I ran the installation procedure it failed due to permissions. So I ran it as root and it succeeded. But then minimwatch wouldn't run due to permissions. I tried adding extra write permissions to a few places but I kept getting permission errors, so I gave up and made the entire /opt/minimwatch world writable. (I don't recall what I did the last time I installed minimwatch. The other fix would presumably be to make it owned by the user.)

How is this actually supposed to work?

tarnkappe · 26-12-2021, 19:23

I simply unpack the minimwatch tar file in my home directory and start it in a shell as normal user by invoking

~/minimwatch/bin/starti

(if I remember correctly)

stefano_mbp · 26-12-2021, 19:46

You should follow these instructions https://minimserver.com/install-linux-mwatch.html

simoncn · 26-12-2021, 19:56

.... with particular reference to step 4.

adrian · 26-12-2021, 22:04

(26-12-2021 19:56)simoncn Wrote: .... with particular reference to step 4.

I wasn't clear before: I followed the listed installation instructions. Step 4 gave permission denied. Running step 4 as root worked. And then produced the problems enumerated above. It appears that the installer is not designed to handle my installation configuration, but I don't know what it expects, or how I might change things so that it (1) works now and (2) updates correctly next time. Note that item 6 on the install instructions said I might be asked for root authentication. This did not occur. I just got a hard failure.

simoncn · (This post was last modified: 27-12-2021 16:59 by simoncn.)

The recommended installation procedure expects that you will install MinimServer or MinimWatch into a folder that has write permission from your login username. Because you have chosen to install MinimWatch under /opt, you will need to always run MinimWatch as the root user which is not good practice.

An alternative would be to create /opt/minimwatch and give it write access from your username. After this, you should be able to install MinimWatch using the recommended procedure and run it as a non-root user.