Re: start haproxy not as root?

On 9 June 2011 00:05, Jacob Fenwick <jacob.fenwick#gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems like I must be root to start haproxy.
>
> I know that I can add a user line in global so that the process will change
> to say it is running as a non-root user once it is running, but it seems
> like I still need to be root to actually start it, or restart it.
>
> Is there any way around this?
>
>

I don't think there is, and if there was, you would be unable to listen on any ports <1024, as only root can do that.

Graeme. Received on 2011/06/09 00:07