startup daemon as unpriviliged user

[Uwe Doering]

matthew wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
>>[...]
>>So, how can I get a process to run automatically on startup for an
>>unprivileged user?
> 
> cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> 
> make a small sh script like so:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> su username -c "command"

For scripts in '/usr/local/etc/rc.d' one should stick to the required 
semantics.  That is, in this particular case you need to make sure that 
it only runs on startup and not a second time on shutdown.  Like so:

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#!/bin/sh

case "$1" in
         start)
                 su username -c "command"
                 ;;
         stop)
                 ;;
esac
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Also, keep in mind that the script's name requires a suffix of '.sh', or 
else the system won't execute it automatically.

    Uwe
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