Upstart setting uid from extracted parameter

Question

I have a configuration file in my Ubuntu server. When I tried to migrate starting of some process to Upstart, I don't find solution to extract the uid and gid from my configuration file and pass them to setuid and setgid upstart's commands !

I tried to do this in script block, I extracted my uid/gid but I can't execute setuid or setgid from script block.

Can someone have any idea ?

Regards, /requinham

Answer 1

It's impossible to do this with actual version of Upstart. Maybe in the future version. But I can resolve this need on script part with start-stop-daemon command because this command have several interresant options like setting gid uid or sched priority. Just use it in your upstart conf file.

Regards, /requinham