Question

Okay, I currently use an eggdrop IRC bot on my server. I want to make a bash script to start it up as well as a few other scripts at the same time. All that’s left is to make it start, but it won’t run as root.

However, I also need to be in the current directory of the file to run it, or it displays an error.

For example:
/home/eggdrop/eggdropbot/eggdrop will display an error, so to run it I need to
cd /home/eggdrop/eggdropbot and then ./eggdrop

So I can’t just use “sudo -u eggdrop /home/eggdrop/eggdropbot/eggdrop” and as you probably know, sudo won’t cd, either, since that would be pointless.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Why not just cd first and then sudo -u ./eggdrop .?