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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