Starting a program at boot

[Nils Kassube]

Jeff Simmons wrote:
> I need to start a program at boot time. The program has a -d switch
> that puts it into daemon mode, but Ubuntu won't let me run it as root.
>
> init: security exit, root euid
>
> Is there a way I can disable this, or, even better, start the program
> at boot (via rc.local, /etc/init.d, etc.) as a user other than root?

su user -c command options


Nils