On Sun, Feb 01, 2026 at 05:15:03PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > i my xinetd service config, my_service, i have > > user = bbob > log_type = FILE /tmp/my_service.log > > xinetd creates a new empty file owned by root > so application being run as bbob can't write to log file
This is not /necessarily/ true. If xinetd starts as root, drops privileges when starting the application /and/ passes fd to the open log file to its child, the child should be able to write to the log file. > xinetd launches the application as it should and it runs ok > just no logging > i'm missing something obvious Could you try to describe your setup a bit more? Cheers - t
