Thank you very much, that worked!

On Saturday, April 26, 2014 9:38:29 PM UTC-6, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> Can you try edit the file /etc/init.d/web2py and replace
>
> DAEMON_USER=web2py
>
> with
>
> DAEMON_USER=www-data
>
> On Saturday, 26 April 2014 22:38:00 UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> You can try 
>>
>> On Saturday, 26 April 2014 13:29:08 UTC-5, Cynthia Butler wrote:
>>>
>>> I followed the instructions in the book Chapter 13 "Start as Linux 
>>> daemon". But when I type this on command line:
>>>
>>> sudo /etc/init.d/web2py start
>>>
>>> I get this error:
>>>
>>>  * Starting Web Framework web2py
>>> chown: invalid user: 'web2py'
>>> start-stop-daemon: user 'web2py' not found
>>>
>>> I think it's caused by the group:user is actually "www-data' as setup by 
>>> the ngenix-uwsgi-ubuntu.sh script, instead of "web2py".
>>>
>>> I can get the web2py server to run by typing this at the command line:
>>> cd /home/www-data/web2py
>>> sudo -u www-data python web2py
>>>
>>> But it is not a daemon process (running in the background).
>>>
>>> What is the proper way to resolve the different owners so I can run web2py 
>>> server as a daemon and also in a secure way (not by sudo -- or does that 
>>> matter)?
>>>
>>> Thank you-- I'm a noob!
>>>
>>>
>>>

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