Run script on boot, as ordinary user

[Bill Moran]

In response to Nerius Landys <nlandys at gmail.com>:

> So there's cron.  Is there anything that lets an ordinary user start
> his/her programs at bootup of the system?  And then run a script when
> the system is shutting down?  I'm familiar with /etc/rc.d/, but that's
> not really what I'm looking for.  I gave my friends access to my
> FreeBSD server and I want to let them start for example Apache and/or
> MySQL on higher ports running as their own user.

In addition to the other suggestions, there's also the jail system
to give users limited root permissions.

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Bill Moran
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