Why the service which uses daemon function from `/etc/init.d/function` throws failure from switching from root to any other user ?

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Issue

  • The service which uses daemon function from /etc/init.d/function throws failure from switching from root to any other user ?
    226         # And start it up.
    227         if [ -z "$user" ]; then
    228            $nice /bin/bash -c "$corelimit >/dev/null 2>&1 ; $*"
    229         else
    230            $nice runuser -s /bin/bash - $user -c "$corelimit >/dev/n        ull 2>&1 ; $*"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6

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