Installing/Running as Non-Root

We strongly recommend that ListManager run as root. Normally, ListManager runs as root to have access to the ports and network files only root has access to (e.g., SMTP on 25).

However, if you want to install and run ListManager with a user other than root, simply run the installer as the user who should own ListManager. The installer will warn you against doing so, and inform you that the standard ports ListManager uses will be moved as follows:

Tcl Webserver: 1080

SMTP: 1025

NNTP: 1119

In order for others to access ListManager, you will need to route traffic that normally would come to ListManager on ports 80, 25 and 119 to the ports specified for your ListManager installation.

Note that for a Solaris installation additional $macaddress arguments will be added to lmcfg.txt to allow it to run.