Disregard that, I wasn't thinking clearly. Thanks anyway. Greg > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Frank Carmickle <frankiec at braille.uwo.ca >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca >Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:35:48 -0400 (EDT) >Subject: Re: running programs as nonroot user >On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> Hi again, >> How does one run a program from /etc/rc.d/rc.local as a normal user and not as root? Thanks. >What? I think you are greatly mistaken. rc.local is the last init script >that is to be run. If you want things to happen on login you use your own >personal profile which in most cases would be ~username/.bash_profile. If >you want it to take place on system wide logins it belongs in >/etc/profile. But I still don't really understand your question. >-- > Frank Carmickle >phone: 412 761-9568 >email: frankiec at dryrose.com >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup