Start ruby script at boot as particular user

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wondering how I can have a ruby script started at boot, as a particular user.

This is on centos, so I imagine i need to create a service. ?

Is it going to be continuously running, or merely fired off and be done? — andol, Jul 18 '10 at 15:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '10 at 16:34

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If you just want to run this script at boot time, put it in that user's crontab with the special time @reboot.

If the script is a long-running process that would normally keep running until you reboot, then a adding a service is the best solution.

answered Jul 18 '10 at 16:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '10 at 15:24

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Read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysvinitfiles for information on writing the initscript that you'll need for this.

answered Jul 18 '10 at 15:24

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 18 '10 at 15:38

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Or u can add to /etc/rc.local somthing like this:

/usr/bin/sudo -u $user /path/to/script/script.rb

answered Jul 18 '10 at 15:38

Or simply `su -c /path/to/script/script.rb $user`. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jul 18 '10 at 16:36

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