Re: rc and login classes

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
> did you:
> # cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

Yes, I did run it.

> > 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.

Daemon inherits the class from /etc/rc.d/tor, doesn't it?

> I'm not a su expert, but perhaps try the following and see what happens.
> 
> su -c tor root /path/to/tor

Sure, starting tor manually like this will work.

-- 
Alex