On 08/11/2005, at 5:25 AM, Peter Berry wrote: > I've been busy building an RPM for Fedora Core 3 of 0.10.2, patching > the wrapper script to use twistd to invoke the daemon. Now the init > script I wrote for this used to use 'killproc PyMSNt' to stop the > daemon, but now that twistd is used, the process is actually called > twistd. So '/etc/init.d/pymsnt stop' no longer manages to kill PyMSNt. > > Now as far as I can tell, using 'killproc twistd' in the init script > will not work since that won't find the pid file in > /usr/lib/jabber/msn (even if I call it twistd.pid), and even if it did > it would not be a good idea since twistd might be running several > daemons. > > One possible solution to this is to put the pid file in /var/run > instead of /usr/lib/jabber/msn (where it is atm) so that the pidofproc > function will find it. Unfortunately the jabber user doesn't have > write permission there, so 'su jabber -c "/usr/lib/jabber/msn/PyMSNt"' > doesn't work. > > Is it possible to invoke twistd as root, and have it change its uid > and gid to jabber once it has created the pid file? Or is there some > better way of solving the problem that my tiny brain has failed to > realize? > > -- > Peter Berry, SUCS Ex-Treasurer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Grab the tarball and do svn switch svn://delx.cjb.net/pymsnt/branches/0_10_x There's two new options in PyMSNt.tac concerning privilege shedding that should interest you. Twistd is quite cool :) --- James
