Hi people,

I don't know if this has been reported before, but changing the user
firebird is running as to something other than root does not work for me
on Debian 3.0.

Firebird will still run as root after
/etc/init.d/firebird stop
/etc/init.d/firebird start

I worked around this by changing the line

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --user $FBRunUser --exec
$MANAGER -- $FB_OPTS

to

echo "/sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --user $FBRunUser
--exec $MANAGER -- $FB_OPTS" | su $FBRunUser

in /etc/init.d/firebird

It seems to be that the --user switch for start-stop-daemon is meant to
check for currently running instances with that user id/name, not for
starting the daemon as that user.

Regards,
Thomas