Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:44:46 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running script from rc.d as local user Message-ID: <44vehaw6a9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44649aflud.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (Lowell Gilbert's message of "Fri\, 09 Mar 2007 11\:00\:42 -0500") References: <20070308085511.1ECA.GERARD@seibercom.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20070308084942.0247a948@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20070308100752.3884e0a6@localhost> <44649aflud.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes: > Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> writes: > >> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 >> Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote: > >>> You should add a line: >>> /usr/bin/su [to your username] >> >> OK, I'll try that. > > A way to do this without needing special permissions to > touch system files is to use cron; it has an "@reboot" > time specification for this purpose. The original message finally arrived in my mailbox, so I see that you've already tried cron and didn't know how to set environmental variables that way. The answers are simple; set them in the crontab (usually on the command line you're executing), or write a wrapper script and call that from your crontab.
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