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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do you start non-root daemon?
Date: 16 Nov 1995 16:46:16 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <48de1p$40l@shore.shore.net>,  <witr@spooky.rwwa.com> wrote:
> 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...

"su -c" used to work, but it got lost with the 4.4 code base. It should
be fixed in 2.1, or you can do 'echo command | su user'...
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