[Dev] setuid question

[Scott Lundgren]

>I know that this must be something that has been done before and that
>there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. I am most likely doing it
>the wrong way.
>
>Any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

Since you've created a user and a group to run the daemon, and you want that
user to own the process why not look at how the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts are
written ?