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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:52:39 +0200
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Michal Slocinski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've problems with commons-daemon, first I wanted to browse dev
> mailing list archives, but current link is dead
> (http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listName=commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org)
> so thats why I wrote here directly.
> 
> I'm trying to run jsvc on linux as a non-root user but I've a lot of
> issues with that. Generally, jsvc terminates with error:
> jsvc.exec error: syscall failed in set_caps
> jsvc.exec error: Service exit with a return value of 4
> 
> I noticed this when:
> a) trying to run it without -nodetach option, or
> b) trying to run it with -nodetach option but with -outfile and
> -errfile set to some file (naturally, I've write permissions to write
> there)
> 
> While running jsvc like:
> ./jsvc -debug -nodetach -cp commons-daemon.jar:my-daemon.jar mydaemon.Main
> 
> everything works fine, but when I try to remove -nodetach or add
> -outfile/-errfile with some file parameters where I've write rights,
> jsvc crashes.
> 
> I read somewhere that when running it under 2.6.x kernel I should have
> "capability" module loaded, but it is already loaded and even then
> jsvc crashes:
> $ lsmod | grep capability
> capability        4872  0
> commoncap    7168  1 capability
> 
> My kernel is standard Debian Sarge kernel 2.6.8-2-386
> 
> currently my solution for that problem is to hack jsvc-unix.c and
> comment those lines:
> if (linuxset_user_group(args->user, uid, gid) != 0) return (4)
> 
> because I don't need running it as a root and then switching it to other user.
> 

I have reproduce the problem... It will be fixed in the release beeing prepared.

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