1. You have to create a user: spectrum (with home dir in /var/lib/spectrum) 2. And a group: spectrum 3. You have to create these 3 directories: mkdir -p -m750 /var/lib/spectrum mkdir -p -m750 /var/log/spectrum/ mkdir -p -m750 /var/run/spectrum 4. Owner and group of both dirs have to be set to the previously created ones: chown spectrum:spectrum /var/lib/spectrum chown spectrum:spectrum /var/run/spectrum chown spectrum:spectrum /var/log/spectrum 5. Configure spectrum config files in /etc/spectrum/ There is already an example cfg file included in current dir. The config files need to have ownership root:spectrum and permissions 640! NOTE: Step 1-4 can easily be done by 'sh config-helper.sh' in current directory. Have fun :-)