From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 2:20: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F6A37B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:20:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from ss11232 (203-79-72-40.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.72.40]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F5BD2CDE for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:19:58 +1300 (NZDT) From: rshea@opendoor.co.nz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:18:57 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: What's this task running as ? Message-ID: <3C17E5E1.20927.DAAB0C@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi - In my inetd.conf I've got ... cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/newrepos pserver .... I'm not expert but I thought this meant that when data arrives at the port associated with cvspserver then cvs should be run under the userid root. However in an O'Reilly book I have to hand it says that "the cvs server runs briefly as root" - how can I find out what user it runs as once it stops running as root ? It's not visible via ps as it starts, does whatever is necessary and then stops. I have a problem which I think may be permissions related so the owner of the task is of some interest to me. regards richard shea. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message