I am trying to have my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server run a bash script I have to start a Minecraft server on start up, prior to log in but as user minecraft
. I can have it run as root
by placing the following in /etc/rc.local
bash /path/to/script/script.sh
which runs the script as root
, I have tried the following in /etc/rc.local
su -c `bash /path/to/script/script.sh` minecraft
but to no avail. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or should be doing instead? The first line of my script is
#!/bin/bash
in case it is important. Thanks much!
Try
su minecraft -c '/bin/bash /path/to/script/script.sh &'
su -l minecraft
to have the script run in an environment which would be similar to that if the user minecraft logged in directly.Give this a shot and let me know if it works.