how to start Freenet?

Don McMorris

2007-06-19 15:25:02 UTC

Olaf:

As a general rule for Linux, do NOT run ANYTHING under root unless it
needs to be. As a general rule, everything should be run as an
unprivileged/"non-root" user until you need the higher privileges, at
which time you "su". This not only applies to Linux, but basic
security practice on all systems. The idea is, if a program is
compromised (due to a bug or other flaw), the exploiter can only
access the files that are available to the user which the program runs
under.

THAT being said, try the documentation @
http://freenetproject.org/documentation.html. Specifically, this page
(http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FreenetInstallationLinux) shows how
the system can start and how to get it to startup with your computer.
That page also explains how to "secure" your freenet install.

Post by Olaf Zaplinski
Hi,
I just installed it on Debian Linux 4.0. How to proceed now? A connection to
127.0.0.1:8888 is refused, and now I am trying to find out how to start that
thing. I found run.sh and assume that this is the script that I should
start, but it told me that I should not run it as root. Why not? I want to
write an init script so that Freenet is started at system boot.
Okay, how to proceed? I wish there was a read-here-if-it-does-not-work
documentation.
Olaf
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