AW: [bf1942] bf1942 packages

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Sunday, March 09, 2003 09:07:48 AM -0500 Joe <crazyace at ourreality.net> 
wrote:

> Here's an start|stop|status script we use for all our game servers.

Uh oh. Looks like that runs your servers as root, which is generally a bad 
idea. Run only as root what MUST be run as root.

You can use su to run as an arbitrary user. Instead of launching the 
bf1942_lnxded binary directly, start a script that runs it and does any 
additional customizations you need (like ulimit -c). Run the script with su 
so that it runs as a mortal.