[rancid] Checking for root

[heasley]

Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 03:04:20PM -0400, Aaron Dudek:
> Seems like a good compromise. Assuming the person installing knows to add
> it.

new installations would get it be default, others might merge it when updating,
but existing installations would not otherwise.

> On Friday, June 7, 2013, heasley wrote:
> 
> > Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:52:50PM +0100, Alex DEKKER:
> > > On 2013-06-06 16:34, heasley wrote:
> > > >  i'd be willing to add a check that is enabled by a rancid.conf
> > > > option,
> > > >  which i believe would be sufficient, right?
> > >
> > > If it's not the default, then it will catch instances where a
> > > forward-thinking admin [or package maintainer] thinks to enable it; it
> > > won't help noobs setting RANCID working on their own.
> >
> > so, ./configure --noobpid ?
> >
> > how about just adding the check to rancid.conf?  that affects everything
> > that
> > reads it, the check can be customized (like adding a timer), or completely
> > disabled w/o an arg/etc.
> >
> > > alexd
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