On Thursday 24 Mar 2005 02:24, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm making a Freevo box based on Gentoo and currently everything's > peachy except that since I start Freevo from "local", it's being started > and running as root. Which is BAD. > > I want to know what are the alternative in getting a user to login > automatically and start the freevo process. > > Help?
Is Freevo simply a background process, or does it run some foreground process? If it's just a background service, you may be able to use /etc/conf.d/local.start to accomplish this. It's what I do to start mpd at login for my local user: sudo -H -u tom mpd Hope this helps, -- Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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