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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:25:11 +1000
From:      Aristedes Maniatis via freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Run script as root without sudo
Message-ID:  <f163070a-03a8-7b37-e2e8-7e6c3d3169d8@ish.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <CAJuc1zP_xLCz-SP4yvr2_m4zKFWVxBdDfMXBtjXSpaD=N=O6WA@mail.gmail.com>
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That would require root to put the file there and then to reboot the 
machine.

Ari

On 19/8/21 4:16pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> 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.




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