I think the maintainer has made some changes to the daemonize.c file but forgot to put the setuid and setgid part back. Check whether you have the daemonize.c file in your source and if the version is v1.2, make the following modification. if (chdir(working_dir)<0){ LOG(L_CRIT,"cannot chdir to %s: %s\n", working_dir, strerror(errno)); goto error; } ---> if (do_suid()<0) { ---> LOG(L_CRIT,"Cannot setuid or setgid\n"); ---> goto error; ---> } /* fork to become!= group leader*/ if ((pid=fork())<0){ LOG(L_CRIT, "Cannot fork:%s\n", strerror(errno)); goto error; Could the maintainer (Andrei, I believe) change that back and commit the CVS again. Many thanks, Zeus