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From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
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At 23:36 24/10/2001 -0700, Dave wrote:
>Are there any good, safe, secure ways to automatically start up third
>party services in really low privileged environments?

   Use the @reboot time setting in the user's crontab(5) file.

Colin Percival



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