Re: [gentoo-user] Starting a daemon automatically without rc-update

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:40:49 -0700, Grant wrote:

> I run one program which needs to be started as a particular user
> whenever the system comes up, but there is no ebuild.  Is this the
> Gentoo way?
>
> # cat /etc/init.d/rc.local
> #!/sbin/runscript
>
> start() {
> su user
> /path/to/program/binary
> }

Yes, or you could use

start() {
  su - user -c /path/to/program/binary
}

which runs the program with the user's full environment instead of
inheriting root's.


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Neil Bothwick

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