Subj : Re: BBS platforms
To   : paulie420
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Tue Sep 20 2022 14:20:09

  Re: Re: BBS platforms
  By: paulie420 to Al on Mon Sep 19 2022 18:54:37

 Al>> I think you can add the user and group to the "service" section of the systemd unit file, something like..
 pa> I actually load my start.sh script from crontab @reboot, so I don't know exactly what the issue is - I have to force a
 pa> reboot and see what mis loads as.

if you are using the normal crontab -e as root then it's going to be started as root.

you can use /etc/rc.local in most distributions to run it and it will run as root unless you sudo it, but systemd can start a process as a specific user

https://www.golinuxcloud.com/run-systemd-service-specific-user-group-linux/

hope this helps

regards
Charles Blackburn    
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