startup scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

[Andre Grove]

Why would a script not run? I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I 
did chmod +x it, but it still does not run at startup.
Maybe I should re-install! :P

Andre

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

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>David Bear <David.Bear at asu.edu> writes:
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>>I am wondering if scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d MUST be owned by root
>>in order to be run.
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>No.  They have to be executable by root.
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>>If I have a daemon on want started, AND I want it to run as user
>>"DORK", can I have the binary and the startscript owned by user "DORK"
>>in order to have it started that way?
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>It will run, but it will still run as root.
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>>the more I think about this, the more I get confused...
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>Apparently.
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>>If a startup script lives in /usr/local/etc/rc.d does its ownership
>>determine the ownership of the process it starts?
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>No.
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>>or is the the owner of the binary the script starts that determines
>>the owner of the process
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>Not that either.
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>>And, if it needs to change ownership, is it up to the program itself
>>to change who it runs as?  
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>The script can start a program under a different user if it wants.
>Many of the standard ones do so, typically using su(1).
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