[ale] programs at boot up

[Robert Coggins]

Thank you both for your help... :)  I always thought su was just for 
root user.  su being superuser.  Heh Thanks for the help! 

-Rob

Geoffrey wrote:

> Robert Coggins wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I am trying to get a specific program to run at boot.  With special
>> switches, of course.  The problem I am running into is I want the
>> program run as a certain user.  For example,  I want vncserver to run as
>> user foobar when the system starts.  I know you use /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>> to have them run but beyond this I am clueless...  Any ideas?  Thanks
>> all!
>
>
> su userid -c "commandyouwanttorun --switch1 --switch2"
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