[NCLUG] starting a script at startup as specific user?

[Gary Rogers]

Does anyone have the Oracle Start script from HP/UX? I think it's the same
among flavors, but there's a very good example of the su - [user] -c being
used to start up a service.

----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Paul Reed" <preed at sigkill.com>
To: <nclug at nclug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] starting a script at startup as specific user?


> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Gordon Forsythe wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Mark.  Didn't know you could su to a specific user.  I'll look
at
> > the named script and get it figured out from there.  BTW, you assume
> > correctly on the distro.
>
> Just FYI, the -u and -g flags are named-specific; they aren't part of the
> daemon function, so you can't use them anywhere else except for named.
>
> If you want to run a script as a user on bootup, I'd suggest using su -c
> with the appropriate flags and sticking that in /etc/rc.d/rc.local...
which
> is documented as follows:
>
> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
>
> ... which it sounds like you don't. Most people, including myself, don't
> either. :-)
>
> Later,
> Paul
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