[Dnsmasq-discuss] forwarder process owner, debug versus non debug mode

[François-Xavier Le Bail]

Hello,

When I use the debug mode, the process owner of the forwarder is not nobody (by default) but root :

Result: potential differences in access to files, etc.


Any reason ?


# dnsmasq -v
Dnsmasq version 2.62  Copyright (c) 2000-2012 Simon Kelley
Compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua 
no-TFTP no-conntrack


# dnsmasq 
# ps -ef|grep dnsmasq
nobody    1806     1  0 00:12 ?        00:00:00 dnsmasq
root      1807  1806  0 00:12 ?        00:00:00 dnsmasq

# dnsmasq -d & 
# dnsmasq: started, version 2.62 cachesize 150
[. . .]

# ps -ef|grep dnsmasq
root      1813  1777  0 00:13 ttyS0    00:00:00 dnsmasq -d
root      1814  1813  0 00:13 ttyS0    00:00:00 dnsmasq -d


Best regards,
Francois-Xavier