autostart mprime under different credentials

[talcum]

Im running fedora core4 and id like to start mprime at startup but run as a non root account. How can I do this?

currently i ssh to the box and run
nohup ./mprime -d &

thanks

[xilman]

Originally Posted by talcum

Im running fedora core4 and id like to start mprime at startup but run as a non root account. How can I do this?

currently i ssh to the box and run
nohup ./mprime -d &

thanks

Short answer: RTFM, in particular "man su".


However, that's not very helpful, so here is a longer answer. Most things that start at boot time are fired up from scripts stored in /etc/rc.d/init.d and most of them are to start daemons, configure hardware and perform general housekeeping. You could create a script there and appropriate links from /etc/rc.d/rc?d.d but I personallly wouldn't do it that way.

There is another script in /etc/rc.d/rc.local which is also run at startup time and after all the init.d scripts. Put something like this line in that file:

/bin/su jruser -c "cd /full/path/to/mprime ; ./mprime -d > out_file 2> err_file & "

Here, "jruser" is the non-root user you want msieve to run under.


I hope there are no silly typos in that code. You should RTFM anyway, just to check my typing.

Good luck!


Paul

[delta_t]

This works in FreeBSD, so should work in Linux.

Create a simple script, say "start_mprime.sh":
#!/bin/sh
/home/user/mprime/mprime -b

Then use the crontab
@reboot user sh /home/user/mprime/start_mprime.sh

where user is a non-priviledged user account.