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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:06:46 -0800, Anthony Baker wrote:

> I'm running into a permissions issue trying to invoke runsvctrl as a
> non-root user

As the message implies, you need to give some permissions to the
user you want to allow runsvctrl and runsvstat -- most particularly, write
access to the socket ./supervise/control and read access to ./supervise/ok
and ./supervise/status.

As an aside, I find that this sort of thing is easier if you
have POSIX ACLs available.