From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 2:11:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D1737B40A for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 02:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6821 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 09:11:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO helios.soupnazi.org) ([65.90.104.142]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 Oct 2001 09:11:25 -0000 Received: by helios.soupnazi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 880DC323E; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 02:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 02:11:23 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: default Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting an app on another shell Message-ID: <20011002021123.A32665@helios.soupnazi.org> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 at 23:26:50 -0500, default wrote: > Hi, > > one more question... I need to make a startup script to run an > application under a different user from boot... > > how could i do this? can i use su - username? :P Read the su(1) man page. - jim -- jim mock tech writer | iXsystems, Inc. http://soupnazi.org/ work: jim@ixsystems.net | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message