Re: www/tt-rss ttrssd user review

Shawn Webb <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:00:27 +0000

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On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 05:15:55PM -0500, Derek Schrock wrote:
> I've been sitting on a patch for a while now to add a ttrssd user to run
> ttrssd (the update daemon) from www/tt-rss.  
> 
> Originally from this pull request.
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/306
> 
> Instead of changing the user if someone wanted to not use ttrssd with
> ttrssd_run_as_user any alt. user would just be added to the ttrssd
> group.  However, I think adding the user to ports would be good enough
> for all cases.
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282245
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D49128
> 
> - Create a ttrssd user and group to run ttrssd.
> - Move log file to /var/log/tt-rss directorie.
> - Move pid files to /var/run/tt-rss directorie.
> - Move on disk data to /var/tt-rss/.
> 
> I've been using this patch for while but looking for a full review.
> 
> Anyone able to provide feedback?

I run tt-rss at home. I'll test the patches over the next couple weeks
and report back. If you don't hear from me two weeks from receipt of
this email, please do remind me.

Thanks,

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