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envuidgid

envuidgid(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      envuidgid(8)

NAME

       envuidgid - runs another program with environment variables indicating a specified account's uid and gid.

SYNOPSIS

       envuidgid account child

DESCRIPTION

       account is a single argument.  child consists of one or more arguments.

       envuidgid sets $UID to account's uid and $GID to account's gid. It then runs child.

EXIT CODES

       envuidgid exits 111 if it cannot find a UNIX account named account, if it runs out of memory for environment variables, or if it cannot run
       child.  Otherwise its exit code is the same as that of child.

SEE ALSO

       supervise(8), svc(8), svok(8), svstat(8), svscanboot(8),  svscan(8),  readproctitle(8),	fghack(8),  pgrphack(8),  multilog(8),	tai64n(8),
       tai64nlocal(8), setuidgid(8), envdir(8), softlimit(8), setlock(8)

       http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

																      envuidgid(8)

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