David Taylor wrote:
>
> On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Bill Long wrote:
>
> >
> > okay. i have my mud set up to boot on system boot(from the rc.local
> > file)
> > my mud has its own user and group. the trouble is, when i run it from
> > the rc.local file, it gets run as roots UID. so all the files created
> > during the session(new players, log files, etc) are owned by root.
>
> The script currently says something like
>
> /path/to/circle/autorun &
>
> yes?
>
> change it to
>
> su -c user "/path/to/circle/autorun &"
>
> [ If you really wanted to use the sticky bit, somethng like:
> chown <user>.<group> -R /path/to/circle
> chmod u+s,g+s /path/to/circle
> chmod u+s,g+s /path/to/circle/bin/circle
> could work.
> ]
this is pretty much exactly what i was doing but it wasnt working. after
a little research it appears that linux doesnt like the set user id and
set group id bits.
but the su -c .....stuff work just dandy.
>
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