[NMLUG] Debian Startup Script

[jamesh at swcp.com (James Hamilton)]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:43:54AM -0600, Sam Noble wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 08:30 -0700, Tim Emerick wrote:
> > Thanks for the pointers.  I like the idea of setuid.  Works just as
> > described.  In my case I'm trying to make sure this prog runs as a
> > regular user instead of root.  I plan on having it start at
> > boot.....if I can just figure out how.  <grin>
> 
> 
> You put the script in /etc/init.d an then need a specially named symlink
> in the right /etc/rc* directory.
> There's a tool called updaterc that can set this up; but the syntax is a
> bear so I just make symlinks by hand.

Yea and I suppose you use a mailreader instead of piping your spool to more,
you people, honestly! ;-)

> 
> # ln -s /etc/init.d/boinc /etc/rcS.d/S20boinc
> 
> where 20 is greater
> than /etc/rcS.d/S<anything_that_should_happen_before_boinc>
> and less than /etc/rcS.d/S<anything_that_should_happen_after_boinc>


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