Bug 8141

Summary: Add functionality
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Kendrick Vargas <ken199911>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Description Kendrick Vargas 2000-01-03 16:31:04 UTC 
This is a feature request/bug report. I'd like to request that
functionality be added somewhere to the daemon function
/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ... It would be nice to have a --user option
that allows us to specify a user to run a process as.

Currently, I run the commands as:
	daemon 'su username -c "/path/to/mycommand --options"'

however this creates cosmetic problems with the current implementation of
daemon. It would be nice to run this as:

	daemon --user username '/path/to/mycommand --options'

I think this is a valid feature request and could be quite usefull in
future package installations.
			-peace
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-08 21:00:59 UTC 
This has been added as of somewhere around 4.84 or so.