Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:01:00 +0100 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user Message-ID: <402DE3CC.10603@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040213200721.F67547@admin1.mdc.net> References: <20040214004739.GD650@keyslapper.org> <20040213200721.F67547@admin1.mdc.net>
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matthew wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
>>[...]
>>So, how can I get a process to run automatically on startup for an
>>unprivileged user?
>
> cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
>
> make a small sh script like so:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> su username -c "command"
For scripts in '/usr/local/etc/rc.d' one should stick to the required
semantics. That is, in this particular case you need to make sure that
it only runs on startup and not a second time on shutdown. Like so:
------------------------ cut here ------------------------
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
su username -c "command"
;;
stop)
;;
esac
------------------------ cut here ------------------------
Also, keep in mind that the script's name requires a suffix of '.sh', or
else the system won't execute it automatically.
Uwe
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