Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:48:43 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net> To: Barry Byrne <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting daemon only for user; gotta be simple? Message-ID: <20020307234843.G94491@Deadcell.ant> In-Reply-To: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKMEMPHHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>; from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:18:47PM -0000 References: <20020307191109.B94491@Deadcell.ant> <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKMEMPHHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:18:47PM -0000, Barry Byrne wrote: > Andreas: > > Don't use fetchmail myself, but if you need to start it from a startup > script but run as a different user, use su with the -c option. > > su USERNAME -c '/path/to/fetchmail -d 60' > Now that sounds promising! I'll go and try it out, this might be what I was looking for. Thanks a lot and regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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