[bf1942] does anyone have an working startscript?

[charles 'wokka' goldsmith]

su - games -c 'screen -dmS bf1942 /bf1942/bf1942_lnxded'

HTH
wokka

----- Original Message -----
From: <kenk at shreve.net>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] does anyone have an working startscript?


> > I like to run this as a non root user so I create a
> > bf1942 account and use this in Joe's script
> >
> >   su --login --command=$path/$game bf1942 >&/dev/null&
>
> This is kind of an old post, I've been saving it for when I need it.
> Well, now I need it. I am using the chkconfig startup script someone
> posted on here not to long ago. It works and all that, but I dont want it
> to run as root, I want it to run under my 'games' user account.  I can do
> this manually from the shell, but when I try to work that into the startup
> script it never works.
>
> Can someone share how they have their start-up script setting the user to
> some non-root account before starting?
>
> Here's my current non-working code snippet:
>
>  case "$1" in
>    start)
>          echo -n "Starting $game in $path: "
>          cd $path
>          su -l games -c '$path/bf_start.sh &'
>          sleep 2
>          echo
>          ;;
>
> I dont see anyway to run it as root (besides its just a bad idea) since it
> constantly clobbers the server settings file (Ryan, in the name of all
> that is holy please fix this!).
>
> Again, sorry for this OT nonsense, but I know its going to come up. Might
> as well get it in the archives now.
>
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