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Date:      Sat, 3 Dec 2005 17:51:32 -0800
From:      Colin Andrew Percival <cperciva@sfu.ca>
To:        Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: schedule a script at "system startup"
Message-ID:  <20051204015132.GA29700@sfu.ca>
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20051203115712.054a1c70@msdi.ca>
References:  <7.0.0.16.2.20051203115712.054a1c70@msdi.ca>

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On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:18:12PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote:
> I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to 
> run under a specific uid...
> 
> I don't see anything for this in man cron...
> 
> is there a way to do it with cron ? or otherwise is there another way ?

Create a crontab file for the user, and use the magic value "@reboot" for
the date/time.

Colin Percival




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