Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>
> wrote:
> >Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> (2014-05-11):
> >> Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an
> >> init script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root
> >> process from an init script?
> >
> >start-stop-daemon has:
> >
> >       -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid]
> 
> Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD
> Unices?

(Almost) all the initscript that are today in Debian are using this.

For other distributions (and other Unix based OS) most of (all?) the
initscripts are already different anyway.

Regards,
Laurent


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140511134739.5c6e1...@fornost.bigon.be

Reply via email to