From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 19 22:30:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F96D16A400 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from don.munyak@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B0313C441 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:30:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from don.munyak@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so526254uge for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:30:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=n9o+n54DMolKntxqy6YizX3mMl3YgZ0XsdodM+jU6KJ451vP2b55zci+BTzviQh7/nDMMlhDFg25hD4woh+ENGW0uR28bS4rDb0GmqB0wmxgP+eBnvJCaBtB+aUDs8uvyB9Y5S/caWjAvXGQS+2MHzsz+2mUctHv3LKmHAPuXto= Received: by 10.82.135.13 with SMTP id i13mr1268057bud.1169245800296; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:30:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.168.6 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:29:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6207f7d90701191429x4ce667afyf4cf53d9388c7381@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:30:00 -0500 From: "Don Munyak" To: "FreeBSD Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: startup script with non-root user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:30:05 -0000 Hello, I have an application I'd like to startup at boot, however, the script needs to be started by a non-user account. If I put the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hobbit.sh How do I get it to start using the user account 'hobbit' Thanks