From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting a daemon automatically without rc-update
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:02:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090812230258.4f31b6b9@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10908121440o3764f861r6dfddcc4c4ce91c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:40:49 -0700, Grant wrote:
> I run one program which needs to be started as a particular user
> whenever the system comes up, but there is no ebuild. Is this the
> Gentoo way?
>
> # cat /etc/init.d/rc.local
> #!/sbin/runscript
>
> start() {
> su user
> /path/to/program/binary
> }
Yes, or you could use
start() {
su - user -c /path/to/program/binary
}
which runs the program with the user's full environment instead of
inheriting root's.
--
Neil Bothwick
C: (n.) the language following A and B. The world still awaits D and
E. By Z, it may be acceptable for general use.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-12 21:40 [gentoo-user] Starting a daemon automatically without rc-update Grant
2009-08-12 22:02 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-08-12 22:50 ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2009-08-12 23:53 ` Grant
2009-08-13 0:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-13 5:12 ` Grant
2009-08-13 14:53 ` Dale
2009-08-13 20:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-08-13 1:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-13 1:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Keith Dart
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