On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 16:02:43 -0400,
Andrew Hammond <ahammond@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
>
> Yes, if you're running daemontools, then multilog is hands down the way
> to go. Is it daemontools that really wants to be root? That might be
> what I'm confusing it with. Anyway, my goal was to provide a solution
> that fits nicely with pg_ctl's -l option, multilog didn't look like a
> good way to do that.
The scanning process (svscan) and listening processes (tcpserver) run
as root. The actual services and logging processes are supposed to
run (relatively) unprivileged users.