managing `innd' to read `inn.conf' from an alternative location

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

 >> ... And to acquire much better separation between the two running
 >> INN's I've to allow each one to run under its own user and group
 >> ids.

 >> As of inn2-2.4.3+20070806-debian-1, there seems to be no support for
 >> overriding INN user/group ids.

	... at the /run time/.  Sorry for the confusion.

 > Have you tried the ./configure options:

 > --with-news-user=USER News user name [news]
 > --with-news-group=GROUP News group name [news]

	Oh, I'm trying to avoid the ``two almost identical installations
	running'' case.  That's the point.

	(And my interest in overriding the `inn.conf' locations is due
	to the very same reason.  Besides, it seems to me that there're
	just too much places in the INN source where the UID/EUID are
	checked; wouldn't it be better to split them onto a separate
	library function?  Moreover, I'm quite fascinated with the
	ability to run certain server software, traditionally meant to
	be run at start-up to provide system-wide services, as an
	ordinary user, for it to provide a service just to myself,
	without even recompiling it.  At last, wouldn't it be better for
	me to hack instead of posting so much waste to the numerous
	mailing lists I'm aware of?)

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