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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 2002 19:53:46 +0100
From:      Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "rachel" <listbox_8811@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /etc/rc.local
Message-ID:  <02030219534608.03516@heinz>
In-Reply-To: <OE47kxERL3kxs4rxwVl0000e117@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE47kxERL3kxs4rxwVl0000e117@hotmail.com>

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Rachel,

> I want to be able to run a command from /etc/rc.local as a specific user.
> Is there a tool or script that will change ownership from root to another
> user from that startup script?

Tried su or sudo ?

> Lastly is there a tool that will do this and also restart the process if it
> dies?

Dunno. You could do it yourself; catch the PID, store it in /var/run/ 
somewhere and run a different shell script every now and then through cron to 
see if it exists...


Kind regards,

Ernst

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