On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]> wrote: >Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >Marc Haber <[email protected]> (2014-05-11): >> >> Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init >> >> script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process from >> >> an init script? >> > >> >start-stop-daemon has: >> > -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid] >> >> Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD >> Unices? > >Good question and I think the answer is a no. > >So… instead of changing the script it may be better to provide a systemd unit >file for dirmngr, then the script can remain as it is.
This will also cause double effort since Debian needs special handling that no other distribution obviously needs. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

