From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 14:37:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F25F37B511 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:37:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djab@enteract.com) Received: from olivia (dschrock.cpe.dsl.enteract.com [216.80.53.93] (may be forged)) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA38308 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:37:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djab@enteract.com) Message-ID: <002301bfda36$f3ed0830$0271a8c0@anonymousdaemon.org> Reply-To: "Daniel Schrock" From: "Daniel Schrock" To: Subject: Can i set ircd-hybrid to run as a specified user? Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:40:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does anyone know of a start up script that would start ircd(hybrid) to run at boot as a nologin user i have created called ircdaemon? if i start it as my normal user, its fine. but if I start it as root, it runs as a user on my server, which I don't want. I'm thinking there has to be a way to run the daemon as whomever i choose through a shell script at boot. Anyone have any ideas? thanks Daniel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message