Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:04:29 -0500 From: "Craig Reyenga" <craig@craig.afraid.org> To: <freebsd@keyslapper.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user Message-ID: <000a01c3f296$7f60eaa0$0200000a@redline> References: <20040214004739.GD650@keyslapper.org>
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man 5 crontab -- check out "@reboot" Or, for something crazy, man gettytab; you can autologin on a tty and then use a shell script to do all kinds of fun things. I used to run X without xdm that way. Hope this helps. -Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis LeBlanc" <freebsd@keyslapper.org> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 7:47 PM Subject: startup daemon as unpriviliged user > Hey everyone. Here's a general question for you. > > I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system that runs fetchmail for me as an > unprivileged everyday userid. The problem is that the machine isn't > on the most reliable powergrid one could hope for. > > So when the system comes back up after going down, I ALWAYS forget > that I have to get fetchmail restarted. If I forget for too long, > there's so much mail it blows the server that receives the mail into > oblivion (also FreeBSD 4.8, running Sendmail, Cyrus Imapd, and the > main culprit, Spamassassin - spamd). This is so bad that I often have > to reboot the receiving system. > > So, how can I get a process to run automatically on startup for an > unprivileged user? > > Thanks. > Lou > -- > Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ > > The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. > -- John Muir > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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