> Please, how can I execute the following idea: $ su gimp & > but really in bacground?
I can not figure out what you want to do, but you might try=20 this : if [[ $(grep gimp /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f1) == "gimp" ]]; then su - gimp; else su -; export DISPLAY=:0.0; gimp &; logout; fi; In the hope that this may help. I think you are overengineering the solution, the OP just wanted to execute gimp as root, and spawn it to background. The following would do the trick: su -c gimp & Also, your solution will not work on anything that uses LDAP, NIS, ... _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
