From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 6 07:21:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA18147 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 07:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA18142 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 07:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA15666; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:21:07 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA12926; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:21:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id QAA07991; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:03:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610061403.QAA07991@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: su problem To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:03:54 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610060650.XAA02320@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Oct 5, 96 11:50:49 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Amancio Hasty wrote: > I noticed that if i tried to start program in my rc.local like > > su -l hasty > > it gets a core dump... Analyze it. That's what coredumps are for. Are you sure that it's not actually su -l hasty -c "" what you're looking for? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)