New comment by mobinmob on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/29575#issuecomment-803022327 Comment: I found the problem while creating a [66 service for monkey](https://github.com/mobinmob/void-66-services/pull/81/files). I followed the runit service, but I got permission issues in the log indicating that the daemon was not able to create necessary files - which is understandable, because there is no `monkey` user. When reading the configuration file, I came across this: ``` # User: # ----- # If you want the webserver to run as a process of a defined user, you can # define it in this variable. For the change of user to work, it's necessary # to execute Monkey with root privileges. If it's started by a user that # that doesn't have root privileges, this variable will be omitted. User _monkey ``` I have no reason to doubt the validity of the comments which also exist in the official [documentation](http://monkey-project.com/documentation/1.6/configuration/server.html). A cursory check with ps also confirms that the daemon runs from the `_monkey` user.