on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:57:19AM -0500, Dahiroc, Patrick (PDahiroc@ARMILLAIRE.com) wrote: > is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by > root? i would like some user processes automatically brought up on boot-up > and automatically respawned, but i want the process to be owned by a > non-root user. i'm aware that daemontools and the like can do this for me, > but i would prefer to use inittab directly. man su? Not sure, but that's where I'd look. Possibly also a suid executable, where UID != root. I think you're better off with the /etc/init.d approach, myself. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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