minimwatch installation (linux)

[adrian]

After updating minimserver from 2.0 to 2.1 I also updated minimwatch. (It wasn't clear if the order mattered here.)

It seems like I have minimwatch installed "incorrectly", but I'm not sure what the intent is. I have it installed, owned by root, in /opt/minimwatch. When I ran the installation procedure it failed due to permissions. So I ran it as root and it succeeded. But then minimwatch wouldn't run due to permissions. I tried adding extra write permissions to a few places but I kept getting permission errors, so I gave up and made the entire /opt/minimwatch world writable. (I don't recall what I did the last time I installed minimwatch. The other fix would presumably be to make it owned by the user.)

How is this actually supposed to work?