I have the same problem. One extra root init process running. I guess it's not really a big deal is it? Other than wasting resources. There's no security issues right?
Malcolm On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:46:10 -0400 Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed that tmda-ofmipd isn't starting cleanly from a script. I > need to run the program as a particular user (not root, and the -u > option isn't enough). If I start the program on the command line ending > with an '&', everthing is fine. I get one process running as the > required user. > > If, however, I use and init script owned by root and use a command like > this to start tmda-ofmipd: > > su - <username> -c "tmda-ofmipd <lots of options>" & > > I get two processes running. One is the tmda-ofmipd process running as > the proper user. The other is the init process which is running as root; > > it never terminates. > > I also tried using the supervise program from the daemontools package to > > control tmda-ofmipd. In this case, supervise requires run scripts to use > > exec without a trailing '&' to start programs. This is the command I > tried: > > exec su - <username> -c "tmda-ofmipd <more options>" > > With this I got the same effect as when using an '&' within an init > script. > > I found one thread in the list archives discussing this problem. > Unfortunately, no solution was posted. Has anyone successfully dealt > with this problem? > > Andrew > > > > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
