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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Master of Reality on 23 July 2002, 05:26
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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 ]
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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.
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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 ?
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I would do it like this:
su - mor -c "/command/setiathome > /tmp/setiathome.log 2>&1 &"
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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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Why not just run it the way the instructions suggest to run it?
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html)
or from cron as the README states:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/README.unix.txt (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/README.unix.txt)
[ July 23, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]