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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!falstaf.demon.co.uk!falstaf.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: No su -c Date: 13 Apr 1996 16:21:19 +0100 Organization: Ruff'n Ready Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4kogpf$290@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: falstaf.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dear All, FreeBSD 2.1 doesn't appear to allow su login -c <something>. I know there is a way of haveing the same effect by using echo but I can't remember how to do it. I want to run my news stuff from rc.local and start slurp etc off as news from within a script and am a little stymied. Ideas please. Robin