Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Mario Marietto wrote: 
> --> If they only want this thing to happen when root logs in directly on a
> console or ssh, then .profile may indeed be the correct answer.
> 
> Yes,I don't need to run xorg and a desktop environment,since warp-cli
> disconnect and warp-cli connect do not require them.
> I wouldn't to login as root automatically,but I've realized that this
> command :
> 
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
> work only if I'm root. It does not work using sudo. So,in the end I've
> chosen to be root instead of a normal user that can use sudo.


If you run 

sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

then the shell you are running it from will run "sudo echo 1"
and then try to put the output in that file. That fails because
the running process is owned by you, not root.

If you put the echo command into a script, and then run the
script with sudo, this will work.

-dsr-


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