> So how do I start/stop a plain program during boot/shutdown? Is it > safe, that root runs this thing? Should I run it under another > account? Which one and do I have to create a homedir for that? > This program should only be started once and not by "normal" > users. How do I achieve this? Where would such a program be > located (based on debian philosophy)? I'd run it as another user - definitely not as root. Especially when you are running a binary file where you can't inspect the source. Just create another user, ie. "des", and give it a home directory. Here's a rather long-winded example of using start-stop-daemon to run a process as another user. (This is for a postgresql server I have installed in /usr/local) start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --startas /bin/sh -- -c 'echo "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D/var/pgdata > /var/log/postgresql/server.log 2>&1 &" | su postgres' There's probably an easier way to do this... I was participating too, until they changed the programs around and I didn't have enough time to re-setup everything. They've completed 2.6753% of the keyspace - wow. :-) Cheers, - Jim
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