inittab

[RobV]

Hello,
I would like to use inittab rather than crontab for starting my eggdrop. And the only help I can find is a forum entry about adding this line to the inittab:

egg1:23:respawn:/usr/bin/sudo -u eggdropusername /command/to/start/eggdrop

which doesn't work when I sub in all my path and user info. I tried to just run the sudo line and this is what I get:

[robv@localhost robv]# /usr/bin/sudo -u myacct /home/myacct/eggdrop/eggdrop
[14:06] LANG: No lang files found for section core.

Eggdrop v1.6.17 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2004 Eggheads
[14:06] --- Loading eggdrop v1.6.17 (Wed Oct 6 2004)
[14:06] * MSG534
[robv@localhost robv]#

So I guess that would probably be my problem.

I can run the eggdrop fine from myacct, but as you can see if I'm in my root account trying to execute it using sudo (or su) the above happens. I'm definately a linux noob. Any help woul be great. Thanks.

[Alchera]

Eggdrop cannot be run from root from what I've read elsewhere. Is also a security risk anyway.

[caesar]

sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. [...]

so, it's something wrong with the "lang" files, check them out.

[RobV]

Alchera: Isn't that why iIm using sudo?

ceasar: Thanks much. I'll have a look around in my conf I guess. For now I'm using the crontab :^/

[Alchera]

RobV: I really should get some more sleep some days.