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init process & directory



hi all

earlier i inquired about running a process via inittab with an owner
other than root.  the suggestion of 'su - myuser -c mycommand' did the
job very well.

i now have a similar question.  i want to run the same process but i
want the process to think that it's on a different directory.  since
mycommand reads files in /home/myuser/mydir.

i thought that 'env -' might do the trick, but i was mistaken.

env - PWD=/home/myuser/mydir su - myuser -c mycommand

the command above does not reset PWD rather it alway refer to the
directory where i ran env from.  does anyone know how i can make this
happen. 

tia

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