Re: rc and login classes

[Edgar Pettijohn <edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost>]

On 07/06/17 16:00, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> Another issue on my server was trying to start a service (tor relay in
> my case) with a low limit on open files in the default login class.
>
> The relay starts as root but then it swiches to user "tor". I set the
> login class of the tor user to "tor" which further extends a limit of
> the daemon class. Both have big enough limit.

did you:
# cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
> My understaning is that the tor process doesn't move to the "tor"
> login class when switching a user. As a result, I can't restart it
> when I login as root. I have to set the login class with su -c like
> this:
>
> 	# su -c tor root /etc/rc.d/tor restart
I think that will just run the script /etc/rc.d/tor as class tor, not 
actually start the daemon as class tor.
I'm not a su expert, but perhaps try the following and see what happens.

su -c tor root /path/to/tor

> But somehow the relay starts fine at boot time. Is it because rc
> is run with the daemon login class at boot?