Help with Difficult Startup Script

[Gavin Cameron]

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Cheers
Gavin

On 1/2/06, Mike Esquardez <mikeala3 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I am trying to make a script that runs the following commands. This
> is difficult for me because I dont know how to switch users. Currently
> these
> are the commands that I am trying to script.
>
> # fetchmail –d 1000 & (this needs to be run as username mik)
> # su -l root
> # /home/mik/myfilter & (this needs to be run as root)
>
> I know I have to make the files executable and .sh extension then put them
> in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to get them to run at startup but I am not sure how
> to make these commands run as different users.
>
> Is there a way to have something like this? (i know runas isnt a real
> shell
> command)
>
> #/bin/sh
> runas "mik" fetchmail &
> runas "root" /home/mik/myfilter &
>
> Any help would be very much helpful. mik
>
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