On Thursday 14 July 2005 07:17, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> O Bryan Maynard Jul 13, 2005 :
>
> > I know this is a simple thing. . . ;-)
> /etc/rc.d, /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ tasks are not to be stopped and started
> by anyone. Only root can do this.
I usually install the below
script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d as name z_users.sh
to give user apps a shot under their own Id.
(Although this answers the problem of how to
run non-root apps on startup, not how to run
root apps as a user.)
iang
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#!/usr/local/bin/bash
users=iang
z_users_file=/usr/local/etc/z_users
if [ -r "${z_users_file}" ]
then
users=$(cat ${z_users_file})
fi
set -x
echo User Startup:
for user in $users _
do
[ "$user" = _ ] && break
eval dir=~${user}
rcdir=${dir}/rc.d
if [ -d "${rcdir}" ]
then
cd ${dir}
echo -n ${name}
for script in ${rcdir}/*.sh
do
# watch out - there are two different su(1).
[ -x ${script} ] &&
/usr/bin/su ${user} -c "${script} start" \
2>&1 0</dev/null |
mail -s "rebooted ${script}" ${user} &
done
fi
done
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