On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Russell P. Sutherland wrote:
> ...
> Note that your uid and groupid will differ, as will the executable
> paths. If you have perl a more portable construct is:
> 
>  /opt/local/etc/tcpserver \
>        -u ` perl -e 'print scalar getpwnam qmaild' ` \
>        -g ` perl -e 'print scalar getgrnam nofiles' ` \ 
>        etc...

I've never had any problems running

    tcpserver -u qmaild -g nofiles

Have I been wrong all this time?

Regards
Peter
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