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How to have rc start a process as another user

 
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Brad Marks
Super Advisor

‎06-21-2004 10:05 AM

‎06-21-2004 10:05 AM

How to have rc start a process as another user

Any processes started at reboot by /sbin/rc are started by 'root'. Is there a way (maybe by using 'su') to have a process show as started by another user?

Any help would be geatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brad
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Sridhar Bhaskarla
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‎06-21-2004 10:08 AM

‎06-21-2004 10:08 AM

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Re: How to have rc start a process as another user

Hi Brad,

Yes. Use the -c flag with su. For ex.,

...
'start')
su - oracle -c dbstart
;;
...

Make sure dbstart is a script to start the database and is in the default path of 'oracle' user.

-Sri
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Brad Marks
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‎06-21-2004 10:17 AM

‎06-21-2004 10:17 AM

Re: How to have rc start a process as another user

Sri,
Thanks much for your help. It works wonderfully!
Regards,
Brad
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