On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:33:18AM -0500, Clint (cpctc) wrote:
> 
> I want to run a tcl server via rc.local.  When I'm at my shell prompt, I
> start it with:
> 
> # /usr/pkg/bin/tclsh myserver.tcl
> 
> .. and it logs to stdout and /var/log/messages via 'logger'/syslog.
> 
> I want to have the thing start up at boot in rc.local, and for it to run as
> user "myuser".
> 
> Because it logs to syslog, I'd like to redirect stdout and stderr to
> /dev/null.
> 
> I'm sure there's a few ways to do this.. can anyone suggest the preferred
> method?

I would do:

su myuser -c "/usr/pkg/bin/tclsh myserver.tcl" > /dev/null 2>&1

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