On 10. apr. 2010, at 17.16, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

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> Mats-Gxran Karlsen <matsgora@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm trying to create a startup script that executes the transmission-daemon
as
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>> a regular user.
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>> /usr/bin/sudo -u $USERNAME -p $PASSWD $DAEMON -g $CONFIGDIR

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> You are going about this the wrong way.  sudo(8) is primarily
> designed to give additional priviledges to an unpriviledged user.
> You want to use su(1):
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> su $USERNAME -c $DAEMON -g $CONFIGDIR
>

The problem seemed to be related to another execution of a script  in rc.local
which needed to be executed and put into
the backround in order for the startup process to continue reading rc.local:

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if [ -f /etc/coherence/coherence.conf ]; then
       if [ X"${coherence}" = X"YES" -a -x /usr/local/bin/coherence ]; then
         # wrontg! echo -n ' coherence';     nohup /usr/local/bin/coherence -c
/etc/coherence/coherence.conf > /dev/null 2>& 1 &
	 echo -n ' coherence';     nohup /usr/local/bin/coherence -c
/etc/coherence/coherence.conf > /dev/null 2>& 1 &
       fi
fi
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After figuring this out i ditched my noobish transmission startup script and
went about doing things as obviously are meant to be done:

moved my rc.conf changes into rc.conf.local and changed to the following in
rc.local

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if [ -f /etc/transmission/rc.transmission ]; then
       if [ X"${transmission}" = X"YES" -a -x
/usr/local/bin/transmission-daemon ]; then
          echo -n ' transmission'; su -l transmission -c
"/usr/local/bin/transmission-daemon \
                                        -g
/home/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon"
       fi
fi

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Thanks for all the helpful input guys:)


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Mats