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Starting an application as a specific user

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I use IRSSI in a screen session on my Linode, running Debian 6. I've been struggling trying to come up with a solution to respawn this process so it will be re-enabled upon a reboot.

What would be the best way to tackle this? I need it to spawn as the user I normally login with.

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try a crontab entry

@reboot screen irssi

I'm not sure if restarting cron will cause it to run again.

the other option is

su -c "screen irssi" digilink

in /etc/rc.local

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