Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/4/2005 6:14 AM Werther Pirani wrote: Ian Lord wrote: I guess there might be a way to put a script in /etc/rd.d/ but I don't know how to run it under a specifid uid Create a script (name is not important as long as it ends in .sh) Although customary, it does not have to end in .sh

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:18:12PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... Try 'man 5 crontab' - there's an @reboot string that can be used instead of the

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Werther Pirani
Ian Lord wrote: I guess there might be a way to put a script in /etc/rd.d/ but I don't know how to run it under a specifid uid Create a script (name is not important as long as it ends in .sh) and put it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Also, make sure the script is executable and contains lines like:

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Ian Lord [2005-12-03 20:18 -0500] I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... See crontab(5) You can use the @reboot magic to make cron run a script once, at startup.

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread 赵铭
sometime ,you can use the commant : su - usename -c commant man su you will find it..good luck On 12/4/05, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Ian Lord [2005-12-03 20:18 -0500] I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Rudy
At about the time of 12/3/2005 5:18 PM, Ian Lord stated the following: Hi, I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... is there a way to do it with cron ? or otherwise is there another way

schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-03 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... is there a way to do it with cron ? or otherwise is there another way ? I guess there might be a way to put a script in /etc/rd.d/ but I don't

Re: schedule a script at system startup

2005-12-03 Thread Colin Andrew Percival
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:18:12PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: I would like to run a shell script at system startup which needs to run under a specific uid... I don't see anything for this in man cron... is there a way to do it with cron ? or otherwise is there another way ? Create a crontab