Memcached Daemon Startup Issues

Peter Pluta peter at placidpublishing.net
Thu Aug 23 23:30:10 PDT 2007




Peter Pluta wrote:
> 
> I installed memcached and since it doesn't have a config file I entered
> the flags into rc.conf, but when I start it with the rc.d scripts, it
> always runs as nobody, instead of the user I specified with -u <user>. The
> man page says "only when run as root". This confuses me somewhat because
> i'm executing the rc.d script as root, yet it still starts as nobody. I
> can manually start memcached with "memcached -u memcached -l 127.0.0.1 -p
> 11211 -m 32 -P /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid". 
> 
> /etc/rc.conf bit:
> memcached_enable="YES"
> memcached_flags='-u memcached -d -l 127.0.0.1 -m 32 -P
> /var/run/memcached.pid -p 1121'
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

Nvm, I had to take a look at the rc script to see that there was another
directive (memcached_user="")
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