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Hi</div>
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I am trying to configure below sequence of commands from a C application.</div>
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enable</div>
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configure terminal</div>
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mpls ldp</div>
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router-id 1.1.1.1</div>
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I am connecting on /run/frr/ldpd.vty unix socket and trying to write about command on socket fd.</div>
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currently write() is failing with bad file descriptor error.</div>
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by debugging I found that ldpd.vty is owned by frr:frrvty while my application runs as root.</div>
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to avoid this I compiled frr with --enable-user/group=root and vty group as root, still observed same issue.</div>
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is there any way to communicate with ldpd.vty from separate C application process?</div>
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Girish</div>
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