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Master of Reality:
when i run things at startup (in rc.local) does it run as root?
How do i get it to run as a certain user?

[ July 22, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[ July 22, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

voidmain:
Yes it does run as root.  You can use the "su" command to run something as another user among other methods:

su - someuser -c "/bin/command args"

And if the command is intended to be run continuously do not forget to redirect the output and background it with the "&" so your startup script does not hang.

Master of Reality:
how do i redirect its output? If i want to run seti as user mor i just put:
su - mor -c /command/setiathome &
it only gives the little output when you first start it ssys "setiathome has started, this is the last message you will recieve", do i still need to redirect that to /dev/null ?

voidmain:
I would do it like this:

su - mor -c "/command/setiathome > /tmp/setiathome.log 2>&1 &"

Master of Reality:
can i do this to make it run continously and wait 30 minutes between each time it shuts down and when it restarts (in case the seti servers go down i dont want to keep requesting).

while true
      do
    su - mor -c "all that stuff"
   sleep 1800
      done

[ July 23, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[ July 23, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

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