On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:15:57PM +0100, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > I want to give users the possbility to autostart programms on boot. > My first idea would be to put a line like that in /etc/rc.local > [cut] > > So that a blocking script does not block the rc.local file. Should I > also add a nohup? Or another way? You could teach your users to add programs to their crontab. $ crontab -e will open an editor (specified by the $EDITOR variable) with the user's crontab. Adding a line such as "@reboot /home/flindner/mydaemon.sh" will cause mydaemon.sh to be run as the user upon reboot.
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