Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:42:16 -0500 From: Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Screen inside Jails + su Message-ID: <20080409184216.GA16393@aleph.cepheid.org> In-Reply-To: <20080409010503.GB15556@phoenix.nasreddine.info> References: <20080408220005.GA23508@phoenix.nasreddine.info> <20080409005217.GA97058@aleph.cepheid.org> <20080409010503.GB15556@phoenix.nasreddine.info>
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:05:03AM +0200, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > This One Time, at Band Camp, Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org> said, On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:52:17PM -0500: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:00:05AM +0200, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > > The common way for a user to run a program at startup is to use > > cron with the special @reboot directive instead of giving it a > > time to run a job. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/configtuning-starting-services.html > > Thank you for pointing that out, could you please give me an example > I haven't found on that page... Sure. At your shell prompt, type: man 5 crontab You'll find the man page for the crontab file, which includes multiple examples of cron entries. All of those use the time specification, though, rather than the @reboot keyword. An example using @reboot: @reboot /usr/local/bin/screen -d -m Rtorrent You can edit the crontab for the user with this command at your shell prompt: crontab -u username -e This will dump you into your editor, editing the crontab file for the user "username". Type in the crontab entry (for example, the one I used as an example above), save, and try restarting the jail. Erik
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