Problems with running a deamon at boot time
 

For the past few hours i've been fooling around with Undernet's ircd. I can get everything to work fine, but the problem is i cant start the deamon as a superuser. At first it didnt bother me, but now i want to start the ircd at boot and it just doesnt want to start. What i want to know is 1- why cant the ircd be started with root, 2- is there a way to change this and if there isnt, how can i make the deamon start with a different user?

Thx in advance,

-Mat


(**sorry for the duplicate post but i couldnt edit the Subject of the first post**)

Posting twice isnt really a good idea. I shall answer in this thread ! Some ircds cant be started as root because it is a security risk. As for your second question im not sure.

is anything mentioned in the man/help pages?

It may need to be ran as a certain user, or may just need to be able to write/read/execute to certain directories.

Need more info, such as any error messages. After it attempts to start at boot, show us any relevant in your syslod (housed at /var/log/syslog but there is a 'syslog' viewer in gnome 2.2 under the system tools menu)

HTH

Alex

When i try to start ircd is say something like "ERROR: Cant run as super-user." then quits.

As for the logs, well /var/log/syslog doesnt exist (im using mdk9, maybe it has something to do with it), but the boot log showed me the same error i mentionned above.

like i said It cant be run as root because its a security risk ! for the same reason why connecting to IRC and the net as root is.

ok, i understand that, but what can i do to start the deamon during boot?

maybe put a sudo command in there?

try looking here:

http://man.linuxquestions.org/index....ction=0&type=2

not sure if that is the right way to do this.

Have you searched www.google.co.uk/linux ?
I would of thought that people would of documented how to start it up.

Alex

What I do with postgres?
You'll probably want to change the
/bin/su - postgres to /bin/su -<yourIRCDuser> :)
but you're getting the idea ;)


Cheers,
Tink

thanks tink, it works :D

thx all for the help.

Pleasure mate :)

Cheers, and God bless,
Tink