On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:30:42 +0930 Ty <ty-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 22/06/2011, at 7:39 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > > yuck. > > if you just want to manage daemons running as your own user, su and > > sudo shouldn't even be involved. > > > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:05:35 +0100 > > Owain Sutton <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I have to disagree. > Some daemons run as a different user like httpd or mpd for instance. > They are started by root but are su'd to the user needed. I don't see > any need to run an actual "user" daemon but if I did, that would be > the way I would do it. This is not a disagreement, rather a different interpretation of "user daemon". For me "user daemon" means a daemon running as the same user I'm logged in as. Daemons running as httpd or mpd probably need to be started as root indeed - I'm not aware of a better method -, but I just don't call those "user daemons", they are regular daemons to me. Dieter
