On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:49:58PM -0800, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > I am running a Counter Strike server on a 4.7 FreeBSD box, and I > recently got it all working running as a normal user (had been running > as root). The game is installed in a users' homedir and eventually I > will be revoking login rights to the user in question to furthur > minimize risk. To do this, I need to be able to run the scripts as the > user instead of whoever is logged in as. > > The structure of the scripts is like this: > > master script (start stop, public private args) > | > run_hlds wrapper script ( command line args for hlds_run ) > | > hlds_run ( Valve prog ) > > All three of the above scripts are owned by the isolated user and have > been chmod'ed to 6755. When I log in as a different user and try to run > the scripts, I get permission issues and am unable to fire off the game > server. What I need is to be able to run it on demand as the isolated > user like a crontab entry. > > Any ideas on what I am missing? I would say you need to make sure that the files are all owned by the user you're trying to run the hlds_run app as - in the past this has worked fine for me:
chown -R user:user /path/to/hlds/ -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"