Am 04.04.2010 18:10, schrieb 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 Check /etc/init.d/functions for the declared "deamon()" function and you will spot a correct and clean way to run a service as a user. daemon() can make use of the "runuser" command. Alexander