<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><defunct><jamiebohr@gmail.com><fedora-list@redhat.com><fd7c117a0708200901p4b2ed084s12dabd5feef81102@mail.gmail.com><ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au><hlhowell@pacbell.net><fedora-list@redhat.com><roland@cat.be><fedora-list@redhat.com><op.txc8khdok7k1qo@cath.cat.be><mikkel@infinity-ltd.com><edwarner99@yahoo.com><roland@cat.be><fedora-list@redhat.com><op.txc81jo7k7k1qo@cath.cat.be><simon.andrews@bbsrc.ac.uk>Message: 6<br>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:22:56 +0100<br>From: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com><br>Subject: Re: rc.local<br>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <46C9BFE0.3030505@warmcat.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>Somebody in the thread at some point said:<br><br>> How do I run a program from rc.local<br>> <br>> I have:<br>> su regularUser -c "cd /home/me/folding; ./FAH504-Linux.exe
>/dev/null &"<br>> <br>> Nothing happens. I see nothing in the logs. Is there a way to trace this<br><br>Maybe<br><br>nohup su regularUser -c "cd /home/me/folding; ./FAH504-Linux.exe<br>>/dev/null " &<br><br>will work better... because your & is inside the quotes I think it<br>finishes with the su action after spawning the background process and<br>then kills the background process because the su exited.<br><br>-Andy<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 7<br>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:23:42 -0500<br>From: Justin W <jlist@jdjlab.com><br>Subject: Re: rc.local<br>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com><br>Message-ID: <46C9C00E.1080306@jdjlab.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>edwarner99@yahoo.com wrote:<br>> How do I run a program from rc.local<br>><br>> I have:<br>> su regularUser -c "cd /home/me/folding; ./FAH504-Linux.exe >/dev/null &"<br>><br>>
Nothing happens. I see nothing in the logs. Is there a way to trace <br>> this down?<br>> Thanks,<br>I'm guessing that rc.local is being run in a shell, which once it is <br>closed, kills any child processes. You should probably look into the <br>nohup program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohup might be useful). As <br>to where the nohup should be place, though, is a question I can't <br>answer. It might be placed before the `su` or maybe before the <br>`./FAH504-Linux.exe`. Someone else will need to help you with that <br>(maybe just try both...?).<br><br>Justin
W<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br></fedora-list@redhat.com></jlist@jdjlab.com></fedora-list@redhat.com></andy@warmcat.com></simon.andrews@bbsrc.ac.uk></op.txc81jo7k7k1qo@cath.cat.be></fedora-list@redhat.com></roland@cat.be></edwarner99@yahoo.com></mikkel@infinity-ltd.com></op.txc8khdok7k1qo@cath.cat.be></fedora-list@redhat.com></roland@cat.be></fedora-list@redhat.com></hlhowell@pacbell.net></ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au></fd7c117a0708200901p4b2ed084s12dabd5feef81102@mail.gmail.com></fedora-list@redhat.com></jamiebohr@gmail.com></defunct></blockquote>I tried both suggestions without any success. Is there a way to monitor what is happening?<br><p> 
<hr size=1>Got a little couch potato? <br>
Check out fun <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48248/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz">summer activities for kids.</a>