From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 20 12:04:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12609 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:04:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enigami.com (enigami.com [208.140.182.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12567 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:04:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@enigami.com) Received: from [208.140.182.45] (symphony.enigami.com [208.140.182.45]) by enigami.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA06258; Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:03:49 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: ckempfm@enigami.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:59:19 -0500 To: derek laufenberg , freebsd questions From: Cory Kempf Subject: Re: starting a server at boot Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 13:53 -0500 98.03.20, derek laufenberg wrote: >This is a basic unix question, but I dont know the normal way this is >done. After bootup I want to start a series of network daemons. >I'd like to start them from rc.local, but I don't want this stuff running >as root. Use su to change the uid: >From the su man page: su - bin -c "command args" Ex: su - operator -c id +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message