On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:09:35 -0500 (GMT-05:00), paul
<palfille <at> earthlink.net> wrote:
> Great Stuart,
> 
> Can you summarize how to get OWFS working on Gentoo. We'll add it to the faq.
> 
> Paul

Yeah, It's quite simple really, when you know how. I'm still not sure
why I had so many problems, the setup I have now is the setup I had to
begin with, with a few tweaks to permissions and an extra switch in
the command line at startup.

Is it a bad idea to run owfs as root?

Gentoo/OWFS Minit-Howto.

Make sure you have all the owfs dependencies installed, owfs was one
of the first things I installed on my Gentoo server after initial
setup was complete, so you may already have these installed.

emerge sys-fs/fuse, you only need the latest stable (1.4 at the time
of writing.) Once you have emerged fuse, create /etc/fuse.conf and add
the line

user_allow_other

This lets you specify that other users can access the mounted owfs.

Next I had to emerge swig, but only if you want to build the wrapper
libraries for Perl, Python etc. If you don't want them, you can tell
./configure that you don't want them, and in that case you don't need
to emerge swig.

Now Install owfs as per the normal instructions.

I havn't figured out what permissions are needed on the various
devices to allow me to owfs as non-root.

-- 
-S
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