Hi everybody. Newbie is here. I recently switched to Slackware on my Intel NUC. This little PC serves me as 24/7 uptime syncthing client and backup storage. So it's really important for me to have it constantly turned on with syncthing service running. Sometimes electricity problems appear. My UPS has only ~5 min battery charge (it's quite new). In such cases NUC turns off due to lack of power. Anyway i have a little trick how to turn it on remotely (my family), but in this case i get running NUC without syncthing service. As far as i know run syncthing as root is not a right thing. It has write permissions and things can go bad. I'm wondering is there any way to run user service that starts on boot without user login? I found some info about runuser and test it a little
I'm going to put this command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Still i have some doubts about if i'm doing it correctly. I know that systemd has some sort of implementations of user services that run on boot without user login. Do we have something similar in Slackware?

usually you can specify a user id to be used by a service. The service itself will be started by root, but will be run as the specified user.
Unfortunately I don't know this service, so I have no idea how can it be configured.

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Google crontab, it will run your job on boot, as a specific user.

syncthing as packaged on SBo already run as the user "syncthing" and uses "su - syncthing" in its rc script to start at boot

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...ork/syncthing/

https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/...g/rc.syncthing

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It's relatively straight-forward:
As your user execute:
append something like:
and you should be fine

That was the first thing i tried. For some reason it didn't work. Even if i specified sleep before run syncthing like
syncthing didn't start after reboot. To be honest i didn't check details.

Yeah, now i realize what mistake i made when i tried to run system wide service as root for the first time. I completely forgot about permissions. I just copied my old .config/syncthing to /var/lib/syncthing/config. Now it works after recursive changing permissions of /var/lib/syncthing/config to syncthing:syncthing and moving actual syncthing folder to accessible place. The service starts syncthing as syncthing user.

Thanks a lot everybody.

that is great.
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