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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:44:08 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user
Message-ID:  <402D7D68.9030303@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040214004739.GD650@keyslapper.org>
References:  <20040214004739.GD650@keyslapper.org>

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Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> So, how can I get a process to run automatically on startup for an
> unprivileged user?

It's reasonable to create a fetchmail.sh script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which 
does something like:

#!/bin/sh

USER = me
COMMAND = /usr/local/bin/fetchmail...

su - ${USER} -c ${COMMAND}

In this case, however, you might want to invoke it from a per-user cron script 
eievery hour or so instead...

-- 
-Chuck



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