Re: cron(tab) used to autolaunch the MUD

From: Eric Green (egreen@cypronet.com)
Date: 05/23/96


>I discarded the idea of making it launch in the rc.d files, as it would
>then run as another 'users' proccess, causing vain to my files :-\

You can set the process owner with "su <userid> -c <command>"

My rc.local looks like:

  if [ -r ~mud/.init ]
  then
      su mud -c ~mud/.init &
  fi

~mud/.init is just an executable file which starts the programs i need.

Eric



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