I'm using Rails, and I'd like to perform a specific rake task on boot. I've made a shell script like so:

cd /path/to/my/app
rake db:backup

which is symlinked in /etc/rc2.d/. The problem is that the script is run as root which means it doesn't have access to rake (I'm using bundler and rvm). I'd like to change to my user for the script, but can't work out how to do that successfully.

So, is there a way to make this run as my account, or is there a better way to get the rake task run after startup?

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Add something like

if [ "$(id -nu)" != 'your_user' ]; then exec sudo -u 'your_user' $0
fi

at the beginning of the script.

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