"Zbigniew Szalbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink > I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use > a non-root user for to run that script. > > $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40 May 9 2007 sender.sh -> > /usr/home/api/sender/start.sh > > So I tried: > $ sudo chown api /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sender.sh > > No error but no change either. The original start.sh file has user api > but the symlink is owned by root. > > How can I make sure that the file is indeed run as user api?
I prefer to use cron(8) for this (it has an @reboot value for the crontab files), but for using startup scripts, I think the best way is to use su(1) in the script to execute particular commands. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
