AW: [bf1942] bf1942 packages

[Daniel E. Atencio Psille]

is there no such thing as 'start-stop-daemon' as debian provides? This bin
provides (among others) the ability to specify a user:group.

Daniel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ScratchMonkey [mailto:ScratchMonkey at SewingWitch.com] 
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:01 AM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: AW: [bf1942] bf1942 packages
> 
> 
> --On Sunday, March 09, 2003 09:07:48 AM -0500 Joe 
> <crazyace at ourreality.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Here's an start|stop|status script we use for all our game servers.
> 
> Uh oh. Looks like that runs your servers as root, which is 
> generally a bad 
> idea. Run only as root what MUST be run as root.
> 
> You can use su to run as an arbitrary user. Instead of launching the 
> bf1942_lnxded binary directly, start a script that runs it 
> and does any 
> additional customizations you need (like ulimit -c). Run the 
> script with su 
> so that it runs as a mortal.
>