<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Starting services the right way.</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hello Matt Did you try “su username –c command args” Regards, John On 1/6/08 4:36 PM, "Matt Joyce" <matt.joyce@gmail.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE> Hi, I've inherited a RHEL4 system which runs an application using PostgreSQL and Tomcat. The problem is when the server starts, someone has to login, su as a specific user and start the java application. I'd like to make this automatic and preferable be more like the scripts in /etc/init.d Any advice on auto starting stuff as non-root ? Thanks <HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%">-- redhat-sysadmin-list mailing list redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-sysadmin-list </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>