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Re: New user for new package



On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:15:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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).

certainly, you can run anything with start-stop-daemon:

[eb@socrates tmp]$ /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --exec /bin/ls -- -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt    5 root     root         2048 Dec  6 03:15 /tmp
[eb@socrates tmp]$

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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