[Nottingham] Redhat Init

[Mike Martin]

 --- Alex Tibbles <alex_tibbles@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > An extreme
case that comes to mind is fetchmail,
> > which runs from a
> > > ~/.fetchmailrc, so if you run it from rc.local you
> > need to specify
> > > the conf file
> > 
> > That's exactly the kind of case where the 'su -
> > luser -c command' trick helps, 
> > especially for larger software packages that like to
> > have environmentals 
> > setup, and get updated over time, you don't have to
> > ferret out what needs 
> > setting up.
> Ah! I've spotted something I don't understand. The
> extra '-' you have "makes it a login shell" according
> to "man su". What exactly does that change?
> 

It ives the same environment as if you had logged in originally as
the user you are logging in as (path etc)

> In reponse to earlier question: this is a server
> program that runs and waits.
> 
> thanks,
> alex
> 
>
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