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From: witr@spooky.rwwa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How do you start non-root daemon?
Date: 15 Nov 1995 19:11:53 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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Message-ID: <48de1p$40l@shore.shore.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: rwwa.com
What is the proper FreeBSD way to start (say from rc.local) a
daemon that needs to run with some UID *other* than root?
I'm used to the Sysv ``su -C'' way...
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