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  From: Khai Dao <saigon_ca@yahoo.com>
  To  : Charles Williams \(CEO\) <hosting.mailing.list.account@acnshosting.com>
  Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:17:45 -0700 (PDT)

Re: /etc/rc2.d

Actually I have written the script to turn on netscape
server at boot time.  I have a web application and I want
it turn on the web application  at boot time . The daemon
runs as regular user. 
to switch user id at boot time, which command is that
chmod +s ?


--- "Charles Williams (CEO)"
<hosting.mailing.list.account@acnshosting.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Khai Dao" <saigon_ca@yahoo.com>
> To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:50 PM
> Subject: /etc/rc2.d
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> > I have a problem to set the scripts to run as a
> regular
> > user at boot time.
> > when I set the scripts at /etc/rc.local/myscripts it
> runs
> > at root user. How do I set it to run at regular user?
> >
> > cheers.
> > K.d
> 
> K.d.
> 
> I would imagine that you would want the program the
> script calls not to run
> as root (such as httpd running as httpd and not nobody)
> which can be done
> with an suid call in the script.
> 
> chuck
> 
> 


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