[cod] Screen problem

[Fredric Ollikala]

That is not a good thing to do. You should run them as a user instead of 
root due security issues. Also if you use SSH you should set 
"PermitRootLogin no" in the sshd_config file and
login as normal user and do "su" from the shell to get root priveliges. That 
is to prevent bruteforce attacks for the superuser (root). Just a few 
thoughts.. :)

/Fredric

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carlo Moretto" <Carlo at londonengland.co.uk>
To: <cod at icculus.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: RE: [cod] Screen problem


> Because I run my servers as root and always log in as root too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Vasallo [mailto:jayco1 at charter.net]
> Sent: 02 January 2005 03:55
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [cod] Screen problem
>
>
> Why don't you run it as user
>
> crontab -u user -e
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carlo Moretto" <Carlo at londonengland.co.uk>
> To: <cod at icculus.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 8:36 PM
> Subject: RE: [cod] Screen problem
>
>
>> As user root
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jay Vasallo [mailto:jayco1 at charter.net]
>> Sent: 02 January 2005 02:25
>> To: cod at icculus.org
>> Subject: Re: [cod] Screen problem
>>
>>
>> Are you running the cron as a $USER or root?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Carlo Moretto" <Carlo at londonengland.co.uk>
>> To: <cod at icculus.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 7:31 PM
>> Subject: RE: [cod] Screen problem
>>
>>
>>> Done all that and still no joy
>>>
>>> I made a test script with the following:
>>>
>>> screen -d -m -S TEST /usr/bin/top
>>>
>>> Added it to cron as user root but same thing.....runs fine from
>>> command line, and I can attch to the screen, but when executed from
>>> cron, I can see it running when doing ps -ef, but cant attach to it
>>> and doesn't show in screen -ls????
>>>
>>> I cant think of anything else to try
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Luke Antins (Firestorm Games) [mailto:luke at firestorm-games.net]
>>> Sent: 01 January 2005 16:58
>>> To: cod at icculus.org
>>> Subject: RE: [cod] Screen problem
>>>
>>>
>>> Something you may wish to try:
>>>
>>> Edit your /etc/screenrc file.
>>>
>>> At the bottom add the following lines:
>>>
>>> multiuser on
>>> acladd root
>>>
>>> Re-run your script via rcon and then from root type: screen -r
>>> <screen
>>> session name>/ ie. screen -r codserver/
>>>
>>> (the / at the end is very important)
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>> Luke Antins
>>> --
>>> [Firestorm Games]
>>> http://www.firestorm-games.net/
>>>
>>>
>>
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