Why is root required for install?

[taxilian]

I have no particular need to create a special user for this to run as; it'd be just fine to run it as my current user. Why is this so hardcoded to require root?

I understand having an install script to set it up in the traditional setup, but it seems a little odd that I cant' just install it as a normal user without all that extra stuff. nothing requiring creating a new user or root access should ever be required to run something like this.

[cyberb]

had to fix log.io-harvester / log.io-server startup scripts to use relative paths for configs and to run as current user.
I would like to have non-root support out of the box.

[jochenonline]

I have just installed log.io under my "normal" user and it works like charm.

mkdir mylogio
cd mylogio
npm install coffee-script 
npm install log.io

Without the extra coffe-script installation my log.io installation missed cake.

The only thing you have to do now is to start the server/harvester "by hand":

node ~/mylogio/node_modules/log.io/bin/log.io-server
node ~/mylogio/node_modules/log.io/bin/log.io-harvester

That's it!

You can find the config files in ~/.log.io

[msmathers]

@jochenonline is right, v0.3.0 now installs entirely in user space. You'll still need root to do a global install (npm install -g log.io), but it's not required.

Also, be sure to tell npm to use a specific user, otherwise it will fail out when trying to create your ~/.log.io directory for configuration:

npm install -g log.io --user "ubuntu"

or

npm set "user" "ubuntu"
npm install -g log.io