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[Sorin Peste <neaorin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 08 September 2007 11:27:59 Sorin Peste wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> My google-fu seems to be weak today 'cause I can't find a good answer to
>> this problem.
>>
>> I have a server program.  [<program> start] starts the server,
>> [<program> stop] stops it. I want to make it run as a daemon on an
>> openSUSE 10.2 installation, so it will start / exit cleanly.
>>
>> Bonus:
>>     - running it as a different user
>>     - listing it in YaST / system services.
>>
>> Thanks for any hints,
>> Sorin
>>     
>
> Write an init script for it. There is a file /etc/init.d/skeleton which you 
> can use as a starting point. Just copy that to whatever name you want, and 
> edit it.
>
> Services are normally started with startproc, which takes a parameter "-u 
> user" to let you run as a different user
>
> And once you've written the script and made it executable, it will 
> automatically show up in YaST's services module
>
> Anders
>   

Thanks a lot, that worked great.
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