[Orca-users] Re: start_orcallator as root?

[Blair Zajac]

Chris,

Great to hear that Orca is useful.

Currently I believe orcallator.se does not require root access, but the
next version will measure the process spawn rate only if the process
is running as root.

Blair


Chris Hufnagel wrote:
> 
> From: Chris Hufnagel <chaya at gstworld.net>
> 
> I'm running Orca 0.23 on Solaris 2.6 boxes at the moment and I've run
> start_orcallator as root and as an regular user with no noticable difference
> in data collection or graph output.
> 
> Is there something inherently wrong about not running start_orcallator as
> root?
> 
> PS.  Thanks to Blair and all those involved with Orca development!  This is
> a great piece of software!
> 
> -chris
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