I found an old bug open on adding support for additional keywords in the startup plist created by the macport system, but it doesn't appear to have been addressed. The documentation simultaneously says that using start/stop instead of direct exec is less good, but that doesn't really fly if you're going to support a daemon running as a different user.
A contributor to my project suggested a workaround, and I wanted to ask if it was kosher or not. He found the right macros to locate the plist and suggested: reinplace "s|^<key>ProgramArguments</key>|<key>UserName</key><string>${runuser}</stri ng>\\ <key>GroupName</key><string>${runuser}</string>\\&|g" ${prefix}/etc/${startupitem.location}/${startupitem.uniquename}/${startupit em.plist} Whether that's exactly correct or not, is it a bad idea to rely on those macros or to do that replacement? TIA, -- Scott _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users