[CentOS] replacement for start-stop-daemon on CentOS

[Timothy Kesten]

Am Sonntag, 4. April 2010 17:37:02 schrieb Kwan Lowe:
> There's no real equivalent, but the "service" command is the main
> method of starting/stopping processes/daemons.  In itself it doesn't
> do what the start-stop-daemon does, but the scripts associated with
> the service utility can be customized to mimic some similar functions.

My goal is: 

start a service/daemon using init.d-script with user != root in a correct way.

One solution is using su/sudo - but is that "clean"?

Timothy