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Hello
Iam a newbie in Linux, Pardon my stupidity. I have situation where I need to run a file during boot. Problem is i cant run it as root user ...
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- 03-13-2009 #1Just Joined!
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Need Script
Hello
Iam a newbie in Linux, Pardon my stupidity. I have situation where I need to run a file during boot. Problem is i cant run it as root user . Now i need a script to run this file as normal user. Please help me
i have tried
#su xxxx
#cd /XXXX (Location of the file)
./file (executable)
Thanks for all the help
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- 03-13-2009 #3Linux Guru
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I'm not a programmer so I doubt I'll be able to help you with this but, I think you will need to provide a little more detailed info such as:
What do you need the script to do? do you need help writing the script or in where to put it to be run at boot?
- 03-13-2009 #4Linux Newbie
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Code:su - xxxx -c "cd /XXXX; ./file"
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thankyou, I have to try this on monday. so i will post the result later. tanx again
- 03-16-2009 #6Just Joined!
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its working thanku very much.
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