Hello. After trying some web searching as well as some attempts at learning from example by looking at sources of current packages.
I'd like to get some advice as to what the best solution for running a daemon as not as root might be. I need the following three on startup which seem to keep me from not starting out as root: - open devices (in my case tty?, ttyUSB?) - open syslog (and/or logfile) - write pidfile In particular, I don't know how to write my pidfile under /var/run without being root. If there isn't any way, is there documentation/good example on how to shed the root privilege after starting? Is a simple setresuid/gid to nobody/nogroup enough? Thanks in advance Thomas
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