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.