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Re: New user for new package



On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:44:47AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> ugh, that clutters the logs, start-stop-daemon --chuid is a better
> option for starting daemons nonprivileged IMO.  

Hmm. Can this be used to start non-daemon things that need to be
run during startup? In the cnews package, I need to run a clean
up script as user 'news', and it runs from rcS.d, before syslog
is running, so the log from 'su' goes to the console (ugly).


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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