Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Hi, > > II plan using bitlbee or prosody. But these servers cannot be run > classically and easily. For example, for bitlbee, it seems I need run > the server as bitlbee user, while he doesn't exist. Do you have some > experience about this kind of software? How can I run a daemon as a > specific user (instead of root)? Are there bootscripts examples?
Generally a server like bind drops privileges and changes to the specified user internally. However, you can probably start a server from root with something like: su - someuser -c my-daemon 2>&1 >/dev/null & -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
