From 2f9439e3df69681302ce1d6707f5034db8ecf002 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 03:25:02 +0000
Subject: add --user option to daemon

---
 rc.d/init.d/functions | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'rc.d')

diff --git a/rc.d/init.d/functions b/rc.d/init.d/functions
index 3dfde002..bd8c3eb8 100755
--- a/rc.d/init.d/functions
+++ b/rc.d/init.d/functions
@@ -53,7 +53,10 @@ fi
 daemon() {
 	# Test syntax.
 	gotbase=
-	case $1 in
+	user=
+	nicelevel=0
+	while [ "$1" != "${1##-}" -o "$1" != "${1##+}" ]; do 
+	  case $1 in
 	    '')    echo '$0: Usage: daemon [+/-nicelevel] {program}'
 	           return 1;;
 	    --check)
@@ -61,13 +64,19 @@ daemon() {
 		   base=$1
 		   gotbase="yes"
 		   shift
-		   nicelevel=0
 		   ;;
-	          
+	    --user)
+	    	   shift
+		   daemon_user=$1
+		   shift
+		   ;;
 	    -*|+*) nicelevel=$1
-	           shift;;
-	     *)    nicelevel=0;;
-	esac
+	           shift
+		   ;;
+	     *)    nicelevel=0
+	     	   ;;
+	  esac
+	done
 
         # Save basename.
         [ -z $gotbase ] && base=`basename $1`
@@ -84,7 +93,11 @@ daemon() {
         [ "$BOOTUP" = "verbose" ] && echo -n " $base"
 
 	# And start it up.
-	nice -n $nicelevel initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "$*" && success "$base startup" || failure "$base startup"
+	if [ -z "$daemon_user" ]; then 
+	   nice -n $nicelevel initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "$*" && success "$base startup" || failure "$base startup"
+	else
+	   nice -n $nicelevel initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "su $daemon_user -c \"$*\"" && success "$base startup" || failure "$base startup"
+	fi
 }
 
 # A function to stop a program.
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