[SunHELP] starting a process as user JoeDoe

[Saily Cedre]

Hi!

The script  may be like this...


case $1 in
'start')
        su - tomcat4 -c /disk1/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
        ;;
'stop')
        su - tomcat4 -c /disk1/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
        ;;
esac


Saily.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Stracchino" <alaric at caerllewys.net>
To: "The SunHELP List" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] starting a process as user JoeDoe


> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:03:37PM -0300, Fernando Machado wrote:
> > Friends!!!
> >
> > Needdanother help! how do i start a process in rc2.d but not as root, as
> > a user?
> > i need to start tomcat as user tomcat, but if i insert anything in
> > rc2.d, it will start as root and will not work.
> >
> > thanx!!!!!!
>
> su - <user> <command>
>
>
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