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 normal time specification in a crontab file to have the command run
once at startup (of the cron daemon, presumably).
> 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 know how to run it under a specifid uid
Your rc.d script could just use 'su' to switch to the desired user and
execute another script as that user:
su - someuser -c /path/to/some/script
su passes everything after the username as arguments to the shell running
as someuser.
I guess the advantage of running your script out of /etc/rc.d is that you
can control when it gets run relative to all the other startup scripts -
'man rcorder' for details on this.
Cheers,
Scott
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