Could not drop root uid

[Sam Trenholme]

> Fatal error: Could not drop root uid
>
> After that maradns is closed.

Are you sure you don’t get a second line explaining *why* setuid() failed?

The relevant code called is this:

        if(setuid(uid) != 0)
            sys_harderror(L_NODROP); /* "Could not drop root uid" */

And sys_harderror does this:

void sys_harderror(char *why) {
    printf("%s%s%s",L_FATAL,why,L_N); /* "Fatal Error: ", why, "\n" */
    printf("%s: %s%s",L_SYSERROR,strerror(errno),L_N);
    /* This outputs to stderr, which duende can not catch (I gave up
       trying to catch stderr messages after trying for two days) */
    /*perror(L_SYSERROR);*/ /* "System said: " */

    /* Unbuffered output */
    fflush(stdout);

    exit(3);
    }

So I’m really surprised you’re not seeing a second line with a colon (:) in it.

- Sam

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