Startup Programs as User

Atroxic · 02-21-2002, 07:34 PM

Is there a way to make a certain user do a startup program? As in the owner of the program isn't root, but "myuser" or whatever.

-Atroxic

dj_relentless · 02-21-2002, 08:21 PM

Can you define startup program? like a program that runs on startup or just a average everyday program/application..
chown can change ownership..

Atroxic · 02-21-2002, 08:30 PM

Startup Program - A program that starts when Linux Boots.

The problem I'm having is that I need the owner of this program to be "myuser" rather than root.

dj_relentless · 02-21-2002, 08:38 PM

During boot up (correct me if I'm wrong) but all the startup programs are run as root.
What you could do is create a script that starts when the user logs on that runs the program..

Aussie · 02-21-2002, 09:29 PM

KDE has an Autostart directory, ~/.kde/Autostart. You can put a script in there to start a program when kde starts.

Atroxic · 02-27-2002, 09:15 PM

I need the program to run at startup, not when the user logs in, that's the only problem.....

-Atroxic

Aussie · 02-27-2002, 09:24 PM

Then look in /etc/rc.d for the local file for your distro and add the command to it. In slack it's /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Aussie · 02-27-2002, 09:24 PM

Then look in /etc/rc.d for the local file for your distro and add the command to it. In slack it's /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

DMR · 02-27-2002, 09:31 PM

Unfortunately, at that point in the process the system can't differentiate between users specifically because no one has logged in. Mounting filesystems, initializing interfaces and services, loading modules, etc. are events handled by init (and the proccesses spawned by init) as defined, for the most part, by global config files and scripts.

Atroxic · 02-27-2002, 09:43 PM

Would there be any way to do any of that after the init scripts are processed? Without having to do it manually?

-Atroxic