[19:55] <blz> Hello, can someone please enlighten me as to why my upstart script fails when setgid and setuid are uncommented? http://paste.debian.net/706443/
[20:01] <chras> do you have permissions to write to all of thoes files with that user?
[20:01] <blz> chras, aha, probably not.  Let me try that.
[20:06] <blz> chras, that seems to be the problem.  Here's the rub, though:  I created a system user with limited permissions and I'd like for him to run the service in question.  As it happens, he doesn't have access to /var/run, and i'm unsure of the security implications of modifying permissions for /var/run
[20:06] <blz> Are you able to advise?
[20:11] <chras> if you're doing your own pid management
[20:11] <chras> why not just make a subdir in /var/run owned by that user
[20:12] <blz> chras, hmm yeah that seems like the simple/obvious solution.
[20:17] <blz> Works like a charm, thanks again!