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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:16:32 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        ari@ish.com.au
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Run script as root without sudo
Message-ID:  <CAJuc1zP_xLCz-SP4yvr2_m4zKFWVxBdDfMXBtjXSpaD=N=O6WA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a7d48318-6b21-231e-1042-2d2daad72c50@ish.com.au>
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 17:33, Aristedes Maniatis via freebsd-stable
<freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> wrote:
[...]
> How else can I get this script running as root remotely in a completely
> unattended way?

The way it's usually done is with an rc script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, eg:
  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/myscript

and add the entry into /etc/rc.conf:
  myscript_enable="YES"

The FreeBSD AWS instances uses this method to auto-install required packages.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>



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