Re: [Sks-devel] Error in recon.log

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2015-02-03 17:45:38 -0500, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> Try running sks cleandb from within the basedir

I just wanted to point out that when these sort of recommendations are
made, they usually mean for you to do this as whatever user your sks
daemon usually runs as, and not as the superuser.  That is, please make
sure you don't do this as root.

doing operations like this as root can sometimes create files with the
wrong ownership or permissions, so that when the daemon launches again
as its normal non-privileged user, it's unable to read or modify them as
needed.

Sorry if this is old news to everyone reading this, but i thought it
might be worth clarifying.

   --dkg