On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:15:01 -0400, Jarret Raim <jarito@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > The reason torrents work is b/c people leave their downloaders running. > > People implicitly do not want to leave their downloader running in this > > case. They want to udpate and get along with life. > > Yum continue with its work as soon as the *download* is complete, just > like HTTP. The client uploaded runs in the background trying to maintain > the health of the swarm. I'm not sure implicitly means what you think it means ;) As previously mentioned, there is a fairly decent sized group of folks with upload bandwidth to spare who WOULD leave their machines seeding. > > Bittorrent hasn't had any security problems but bittorrent should not > > ever run as root. Yum has no choice but to run as root. > > Amen. This is still a beta system. The client and server managers > already do not run as root, but right now the downloader spawned from > yum does, albeit for a short period of time. We plan to fix this. > Nothing but the very minimum will run as root. > I don't really see what the problem is with running bittorrent as root, but if Jarret is making sure that it doesn't run as root then I guess this problem is addressed already. Greg
