Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 11:48:16 +0100 From: David Hedley <David.Hedley@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: weird problem with su Message-ID: <398.833626096@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk>
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The computer:
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Pentium 90, Intel Premier M/B, 32MB RAM, 2940 SCSI, FreeBSD 2.1R
No known hardware problems.
My requirements:
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I have a couple of user's programs that I wish to be run at boot time.
My Solution:
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I put the following at the end of /etc/rc.local
(
if [ -x /home/users/bbsadmin/bootup ]; then
echo -n 'BBS: '
echo bootup | su -l bbsadmin
fi
if [ -x /home/users/mud/bootup ]; then
echo -n 'TNT: '
echo bootup | su -l mud
fi
) >/tmp/bootup 2>&1 &
What happens:
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Both 'su' commands exit on signal 11 and the following is found in
/tmp/bootup:
BBS: Memory fault
TNT: Memory fault
This happens everytime the machine is rebooted.
However, if I log in as root and run the above snippet, everything works
fine and the requested programs get started, running under the correct UID.
Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong or why 'su' is crashing?
Is there a better way of starting a user's program on bootup?
Thanks for any help,
David
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David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk)
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Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK
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