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icon5.gif   elogd runs by a user but not by root, posted by Dongwook Jang on Tue Apr 28 21:25:31 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Apr 29 07:52:57 2009 
       icon2.gif   Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root, posted by Dongwook Jang on Wed Apr 29 18:20:38 2009 
          icon2.gif   Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Apr 30 08:40:43 2009 
             icon2.gif   Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root, posted by Dongwook Jang on Thu Apr 30 20:49:03 2009 
Message ID: 66336     Entry time: Thu Apr 30 08:40:43 2009     In reply to: 66335     Reply to this: 66338
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.6 
Subject: Re: elogd runs by a user but not by root 
Dongwook Jang wrote:

 Hi,

I wonder how others manage this situation because deamons in /etc/init.d is excercuted by root. So I cannot run in /etc/init.d/elogd when the system starts up.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Dongwook

The normal situation is that elogd gets started by root under /etc/init.d/, then the configuration file contains "Usr = elog" and "Grp = elog", so after it has been started as root, the program falls back to the "elog" user, which only has restricted rights. 

 

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