On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey everyone. Here's a general question for you. > > I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system that runs fetchmail for me as an > unprivileged everyday userid. The problem is that the machine isn't > on the most reliable powergrid one could hope for. > > So when the system comes back up after going down, I ALWAYS forget > that I have to get fetchmail restarted. If I forget for too long, > there's so much mail it blows the server that receives the mail into > oblivion (also FreeBSD 4.8, running Sendmail, Cyrus Imapd, and the > main culprit, Spamassassin - spamd). This is so bad that I often have > to reboot the receiving system. > > So, how can I get a process to run automatically on startup for an > unprivileged user? >
cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d make a small sh script like so: #!/bin/sh su username -c "command" Example use on command line: krazykat# id uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest) krazykat# su matthew -c id uid=1001(matthew) gid=1001(matthew) groups=1001(matthew), 0(wheel), 69(network) krazykat# l8r, m > Thanks. > Lou > -- > Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ > > The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. > -- John Muir > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"