From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 17 22:45:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from metis.host4u.net (metis.host4u.net [209.150.128.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11D5150B9 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan.langille@dvl-software.com) Received: from wocker (203-79-82-27.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.27]) by metis.host4u.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA17416 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:44:59 -0600 Message-Id: <199911180644.AAA17416@metis.host4u.net> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:45:15 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Cannot become a daemon: Permission denied Reply-To: dan.langille@dvl-software.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to start cvsupd on a box. # su -m cvsup -c "/usr/local/sbin/cvsupd -e -C 8 -l daemon -s /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup.client" Cannot create "daemon": Permission denied It will start with this command: # su -m cvsup -c "/usr/local/sbin/cvsupd -e -s /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup.client" 1999.11.18 19:44:03 NZDT [26301]: CVSup server started 1999.11.18 19:44:03 NZDT [26301]: Software version: REL_16_0 1999.11.18 19:44:03 NZDT [26301]: Protocol version: 16.0 1999.11.18 19:44:04 NZDT [26301]: Ready to service requests But it's not a daemon. The following also works. /usr/local/sbin/cvsupd -e -C 8 -l daemon -s /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup.client I don't understand and can't get past this. Any clues? The box is running 3.2-release -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm unix @ home - http://www.unixathome.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message