Running script from rc.d as local user

[Lowell Gilbert]

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> Gerard Seibert <gerard at seibercom.net> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600
>> Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>
>>> You should add a line:
>>> /usr/bin/su [to your username]
>>
>> OK, I'll try that.
>
> A way to do this without needing special permissions to
> touch system files is to use cron; it has an "@reboot"
> time specification for this purpose.

The original message finally arrived in my mailbox, so I see that
you've already tried cron and didn't know how to set environmental
variables that way.  The answers are simple; set them in the crontab
(usually on the command line you're executing), or write a wrapper
script and call that from your crontab.