Re: rc.local

[<edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Message: 6
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:22:56 +0100
From: Andy Green
Subject: Re: rc.local
To: For users of Fedora
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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> How do I run a program from rc.local
>
> I have:
> su regularUser -c "cd /home/me/folding; ./FAH504-Linux.exe >/dev/null &"
>
> Nothing happens. I see nothing in the logs. Is there a way to trace this

Maybe

nohup su regularUser -c "cd /home/me/folding; ./FAH504-Linux.exe
>/dev/null " &

will work better... because your & is inside the quotes I think it
finishes with the su action after spawning the background process and
then kills the background process because the su exited.

-Andy



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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:23:42 -0500
From: Justin W
Subject: Re: rc.local
To: For users of Fedora
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edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> How do I run a program from rc.local
>
> I have:
> su regularUser -c "cd /home/me/folding; ./FAH504-Linux.exe >/dev/null &"
>
> Nothing happens. I see nothing in the logs. Is there a way to trace
> this down?
> Thanks,
I'm guessing that rc.local is being run in a shell, which once it is
closed, kills any child processes. You should probably look into the
nohup program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohup might be useful). As
to where the nohup should be place, though, is a question I can't
answer. It might be placed before the `su` or maybe before the
`./FAH504-Linux.exe`. Someone else will need to help you with that
(maybe just try both...?).

Justin W



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I tried both suggestions without any success. Is  there a way to monitor what is happening?

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