On Jan 16, 2008 4:09 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, January 16, 2008 12:10 pm, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> > Lan Barnes wrote:
> >> I want to have a non-root user start a program on start up. I suspect
> >> that
> >> there is some mojo I can add to a line in rc.local that will have the
> >> line
> >> executed by someone other than root.
> >>
> >> Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
> >>
> >
> > Maybe you're thinking it's more complicated than it is? Howbout:
> > # su lan -c 'proggie args'
>
> This isn't working:
>
> su perforce -c 'p4d -r /data/p4/ -p 1666 &'
>
> It works at the CLI.
>
Simple-minded question. assuming you are trying this in rc.local:
Have you tried specifying the full path to "p4d"?
Implications behind this question:
Never assume that $PATH is the same in a script as it is in your own
login environment.
"su - perforce" to grab the environment belonging to user "perforce".
carl
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