[ale] Autostarting non-root processes on RH

[Wandered Inn]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> Under RH6.2, I'm trying to start Zope automatically as a non-root-owned
> process.  The docs do not seem to address autostarting, but rather have you
> typing "./start" to get it going.
> 
> Creating a link in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d would be great but that leaves Zope
> running as root.  Putting an entry in crontab would work, because the start
> script bombs nicely if there is another instance running.  However, every
> time that runs, there is a spike in CPU and memory usage for a few seconds
> that I'd rather not have.  It also would mean that Zope would remain down
> for some amount of time after the machine booted, and although I could
> reduce the upper bound for how long that would be via crontab parameters,
> that would be at the expense of taking more frequent CPU/mem spikes.
> 
> Is there a preferred general way to execute startup scripts as not-root at
> boot time?  The only other thing I can think of would be to put something
> like this in rc.local:
> 
>         su <username>;/<path_to_startup_script>/start

close, try:

su username -c "/path_to_script/start"

> 
> but that seems a bit clunky.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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