On 22/06/2011, at 9:35 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > 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 Apologies. I realised what you meant after I posted.
