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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2021-04-23 14:56:00 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2021-04-23 14:56:00 +0000
commit27f1ba99521c4bdf081e6364ca4bea841aee8557 (patch)
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parent3bde455795bb3273922ec7be293e3911913576c2 (diff)
downloads6-linux-init-27f1ba99521c4bdf081e6364ca4bea841aee8557.tar.xz
Hack s6-l-i-m so it doesn't fail when run as non-root
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@@ -68,8 +68,11 @@ machine</em>. If it is not the case, the system will fail to boot.
</pre>
<ul>
- <li> s6-linux-init-maker must be run as root, on the machine
+ <li> s6-linux-init-maker must be run on the machine
that will boot an s6-based system. </li>
+ <li> It normally should be <em>run as root</em>. It supports
+not running as root for a small amount of very specific cases; but
+you should run it as root unless you know exactly what you are doing. </li>
<li> s6-linux-init-maker parses options on its command line. </li>
<li> It writes data into a directory <em>dir</em>, which must not
exist beforehand. </li>