From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: dnscache runs under daemontools, unable to bind (access denied) using runit
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:22:52 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505201320190.8116@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2EF613DA-4D3C-434C-9E67-80CBBCA76E30@nednieuws.com>
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Charles M. Gerungan wrote:
> -U user[:group]
> envuidgid. Set the environment variables $UID and $GID to the
> user's uid and gid. If user is followed by a colon and a group,
> set $GID to the group's gid instead of user's gid.
>
> So the difference is that -u drops privileges before the program is invoked
> and -U after?
-U doesn't do anything with privileges. It does exactly what the
documentation says it does - it sets environment variables.
Read dnscache documentation for effect of any environment variable
settings.
---
Charlie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-20 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-20 12:04 Charles M. Gerungan
2005-05-20 12:10 ` Charles M. Gerungan
2005-05-20 16:03 ` Gregg Howe
2005-05-20 17:18 ` Charles M. Gerungan
2005-05-20 17:22 ` Charlie Brady [this message]
2005-05-20 17:31 ` Charles M. Gerungan
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