su user -c problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 07 January 2008, Davide Bolcioni wrote:
>On Monday 07 January 2008 05:23:20 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I boot and login at runlevel 3, the everything but X, then run startx by
>> hand. I'm a big dummy maybe, and an old fart, but *I* can run it by using
>> the S99local link exactly the same as it real name, so why doesn't init
>> run it?
>
>I had something similar happen to me some time in the past, say about Fedora
>Core 3, and my init script was hanging (I could see it with pstree) asking
>for user input. I would pepper the script with
>
>  echo $$ so far so good >> /tmp/cursed-initscript.log
>
And would you believe, it all worked on this reboot.  I think I'll go shoot 
the neighbors worthless tomcat.  This is frustrating, it failed absolutely on 
the last 3 reboots.

I put that echo in S98wine, S99anacron, S99 firstboot and S99local, and while 
init is still visible in a pstree output, that file looks like this:

2563 so far so good, start of wine
2563 so far so good, end of wine startup
2571 so far so good, start of anacron
2571 so far so good, end of anacron
2581 so far so good, start of firstboot
2581 so far so good, firstboot should exit here
2588 so far so good, start of rc.local

>to see if it is started at all and then hangs or exits somewhere.
>
>Davide Bolcioni



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