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running a scr in rc3.d not as root, can i?
Post 31236 by Kelam_Magnus on Monday 4th of November 2002 04:40:07 PM
11-04-2002
I am somewhat curious as to what advantage you would gain from this configuration. Are you wanting to be able to restart the script after the box is up in case of trouble?
From what I can tell on my HPUX system, my /sbin/rc3.d directory has read and exe for all of the startup scripts there.
Now that I look closer, I believe that you would actually exe the script from/sbin/init.d/myscript, and not from startup script directory /sbin/rc3.d/myscript. You can use the myscript stop; myscript start functionality from /sbin/init.d. Most likely, you should already be able to exe the scripts from there if the permissions are at least 755.
However, I don't see any advantages/disadvantages of having it owned by a non-root user. I think it is entirely possible that you can do this, but I don't see any gain by this configuration.
Maybe you can elaborate on your situation.
From what I can tell on my HPUX system, my /sbin/rc3.d directory has read and exe for all of the startup scripts there.
Now that I look closer, I believe that you would actually exe the script from/sbin/init.d/myscript, and not from startup script directory /sbin/rc3.d/myscript. You can use the myscript stop; myscript start functionality from /sbin/init.d. Most likely, you should already be able to exe the scripts from there if the permissions are at least 755.
However, I don't see any advantages/disadvantages of having it owned by a non-root user. I think it is entirely possible that you can do this, but I don't see any gain by this configuration.
Maybe you can elaborate on your situation.
Last edited by Kelam_Magnus; 11-04-2002 at 05:47 PM..
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