The asterisk example wouldn't work here because it depends on the
executable supporting being run as a different user.
The -U option.
Thank you anyway Ken.
Although the mongo example using sudo launches an additional process, it
works because daemondo and in turn launchd monitors the whole th
On 2016-09-17 17:12, Javier Alcázar wrote:
> I'm creating a new Portfile with startupitem.executable, and wondering
> what is the best way to execute the command with a specific user.
Just for the future, Portfile development is usually discussed on
macports-dev, where you would reach more develop
Here's a snippet from another port that might help:
startupitem.create yes
startupitem.netchange yes
if {[getuid] == 0} {
startupitem.executable ${prefix}/sbin/asterisk -d -U asterisk -G asterisk
} else {
startupitem.executable ${prefix}/sbin/asterisk -d
}
and there is a discuss
Hi people,
I'm creating a new Portfile with startupitem.executable, and wondering what
is the best way to execute the command with a specific user.
I tried using "su -c executable args" but with this approach launchd ends
up monitoring the "su" process instead of the "executable"
What would you
