Bug 8141 - Add functionality
Summary: Add functionality
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-01-03 16:31 UTC by Kendrick Vargas
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-08 21:00:20 UTC
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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.


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