in reply to Re^2: Running a daemon process as another user
in thread Running a daemon process as another user

print "USER: ". getpwuid($<) . "\n";

USER will be root, but when I do a ps -ef it does:

Sure it is, because   $<   is the real uid (you used to be root).

Use the effective uid   $>   to display the new identity. See  perlvar.

Cheers, Sören

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