How would you get a command to run on startup as a non-root user, on BeagleBone Black?

Question

I have generally speaking followed the instructions here , and tried using su - <myuser> -c "the command" within the service script there. However, I'm trying to run a Clojure application via Leiningen, and it seems that neither lein can't be found by the process. I can use something like su - <myuser> -c "/path/to/lein run ..." , but then I get an error that java isn't found.

How do I get this command to run such that it has access to my environment?

Answer 1

This turned out to be quite simple. I did

su - <myuser> -c "source ~/.bashrc; cd ~/chicken-coop; ~/bin/lein run"`

The key is to source ~/.bashrc; , which adds the normal things to your path, so lein knows where java is.