Cant install gvm-libs directory "/run/gvm": Permission denied

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Hi,

I’m trying to build and install the gvm-libs v21.4.4 . I have set the install prefix as “DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/gvm”. All files seem to respect this path except for /run. The docs don’t show a variable for the /run folder. The user gvm:gvm does not have permissions on /run, it needs to go to /opt/gvm/run where /opt/gvm is my prefix path.

I now manually copy the files, but there’s something not right here.

Kind regards,
Bastiaan

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If I build with “-DGVM_RUN_DIR=/opt/gvm/run/gvm” the error is resolved. Is this the correct way to handle this?

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You really should know that this directory is for, and not doing it that way. If you don´t understand how a Linux Systems manage it’s services you will fail with that type of setup.

Please read how to init a system and then think if this is the way you wanna go. Some components needs to run as root anyway. So your setup that way will not work.

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If you are using GVM 21.4.4 it should be -DGVMD_RUN_DIR=/opt/gvm/run/gvm for gvmd and -DGSAD_RUN_DIR=/opt/gvm/run/gvm for gsad. Nevertheless this directory is not put within the prefix by intention. /run is a special directory and (mostly) handled by systemd. Thus without knowing about all the details you will run in other issues at the end.

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Hello,

I’m using -DGVM_RUN_DIR=/run/gvmd for GVMD and -DGSAD_RUN_DIR=/run/gsad for GSAD.
If you want to use /run directory, don’t forget to configure your service adding permissions like:

/etc/systemd/system/gvmd.service

RuntimeDirectory=gvmd
RuntimeDirectoryMode=2775
PIDFile=/run/gvmd/gvmd.pid

And

/etc/systemd/system/gsad.service

RuntimeDirectory=gsad 
RuntimeDirectoryMode=2775
PIDFile=/run/gsad/gsad.pid
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