I have an eggdrop and it usually runs on an unprivileged user, I want to make its binary start up when the linux box does. I know about /etc/rc.d/init.d but this starts those applications with root privileges, which I don't want.

Is there some sort of file/directory that can be created in /home/myusername which will contain [a list of] the files that need to be run automatically?

Someone told me to use crontabs but I think a crontab's a bit over the top for something so simple.

The system is Redhat9, any ideas of how I can achieve this?

you can make a bootscript with the 'su' command. for example my postgresql server starts at boot time using user pgsql with this command in the bootscript:

su - pgsql -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl bla bla"

as the scripts are running with root access no password is asked for the 'su' command
this solves the problem I guess.

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If what you are started is for a normal user, is there a reason not to use .bashrc_profile file? I think that starts any script (or whatever) at login... (I'm newbie and I use it a lot, that's why I rather ask than answer)

paicolman - that would start the process only when the user logs in, and not when the machine boots up.