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I have a daemon which listens to a socket in /var/run. I start the daemon using an init script (as root, obviously), and I'm using the twistd --uid and --gid options to drop privileges to an unprivileged user. The socket, however, is still owned by root:root.

A second daemon, which runs as the same unprivileged user, needs to have access to the socket. I now change the socket ownership to daemon:daemon in the init script, but this doesn't strike me as a very elegant solution.

Is there a way make the socket owned by daemon:daemon in the tac file?

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No, currently there isn't.

It's an open issue in Twisted, it's also the case with PID and log files.

See blog describing the issue, and open issues:

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