wrong user running post-processing script

[kierse]

Hi everyone,

I'm running sabnzbd 0.4.6 as a service under Gentoo Linux with the daemon running as its own user.  The problem I'm having is that all post-processing scripts are being run by the root user and I would like them to be run by the same user that runs the daemon.  When I manually invoke sabnzbd, all post-processing scripts are run by the same user (which is the expected behavior) so I know this isn't an issue with sabnzbd but with Gentoo.  Here is the init script that's responsible for start/stopping sabnzbd:

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opts="start stop"

depend() {
    need net
}

start() {
    ebegin "Starting SABnzbd"
    if ! check_config ; then
        eend 1
        return 1
    fi

    start-stop-daemon --quiet --start -c ${SAB_USER} \
    	-g ${SAB_GROUP} --name SABnzbd.py \
	--exec /usr/bin/SABnzbd.py -- \
        -s ${SAB_HOSTNAME}:${SAB_PORT} -f ${SAB_CONFIGFILE} -d &> /dev/null
    eend $?
}

stop() {
    ebegin "Stopping SABnzbd"
    URL="http://${SAB_HOSTNAME}:${SAB_PORT}/sabnzbd/shutdown"
    if [ -x /usr/bin/wget ] ; then
	/usr/bin/wget -q --delete-after "${URL}"
    elif [ -x /usr/bin/curl ] ; then
	/usr/bin/curl --silent "${URL}" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
    else
	ewarn "missing wget and curl, ending all processes named SABnzbd.py"
	start-stop-daemon --quiet --stop --name SABnzbd.py
    fi
    eend $?
}

check_config() {
    if [ ! -e ${SAB_CONFIGFILE} ] ; then
        eerror "ERROR: can't find ${SAB_CONFIGFILE}."
        return 1
    else
        return 0
    fi
}

Any Gentoo users out there that have run into this sort of problem before?  Is this normal behavior when su'ing from root to another user in order to start a process?  Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Kierse

[kierse]

Any ideas?  I've run into this problem again and would really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions

Thanks,
Kierse