On 07/02/10 06:11, Charles Solar wrote: > In the book we only used the apps config file to specify a different > user, ex, svn, proftpd. But I want to run Deluge under a different user > and it does not have a config option for this. So I am wondering if > there is some way I am 'supposed' to setup the init script to do this. > I am trying to avoid installing any more unnecessary programs like > daemon and start-stop-daemon so any advice is appreciated.
Bind has a command line switch -u to run as a different user so the init script does loadproc /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/local/named -c /etc/named.conf Another approch that I use to start X is to use su - su - andy -c xinit 2&> /var/log/x-session.errors Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
