On 7/21/2015 8:36 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> Sorry to be dragging this off-topic, but what's the reason for using su instead of
> sudo?
sudo is for non root users, it ends up running the su command. normally
root doesn't use sudo at all, look at all the init.d scripts that run
daemons as other users, they typically use su, like...
$SU -l postgres -c "$PGENGINE/postmaster -p '$PGPORT' -D
'$PGDATA' ${PGOPTS} &" >> "$PGLOG" 2>&1 <
/dev/null
(where $SU is su or runuser)
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