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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: su problem
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:44:47 +0100 (MET)
Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199610061940.MAA00312@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Oct 6, 96 12:40:00 pm
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As Amancio Hasty wrote...

[del]

> So it works...
> 
> Now, in /etc/rc.local
> su -l hasty -c /usr/home/hasty/foo
> su -l hasty /usr/home/hasty/foo
> 
> When the system boots up , it generates :
> Oct  6 12:30:20 rah /kernel: pid 171 (su), uid 1000: exited on signal 11
> Oct  6 12:30:21 rah /kernel: pid 172 (su), uid 1000: exited on signal 11
> 
> No coredump gets generated , I guess I have to modify su to generate a 
> coredump when it gets a signal 11.

I had the same problem when I wanted su to run some stuff as 'news'
during rc.local This was on 205R (I think). Haven't tried it after that.
Sounds similar tho.

Wilko
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