Andrew Errington wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:24, you wrote:Depends if your start block in /etc/init.d/whatever runs su - user -c "command"
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:17, Andrew Errington wrote:
You don't mention which distribution you are running, we can only replyHello,
I have a "style" question regarding a process that I wish to run all
the time.
in general terms.
General is fine, but I'm running Debian 3.0 (Woody)
The quick and dirty way is to make an entry into the file provided for the purpose. There will be a file in the /etc/rc.d directory tree ( RedHat et al ) into which you can put commands to run at the end of the start-up sequence. The file is called /etc/rc.d/rc.local on mandrake ( 8.? ) and Other dists. will use something similar.
imho ( as a purist ) you should run these daemons using their own user.
The data can then be stored in their home directory also.
Well this is exactly the kind of answer I'm looking for, which is really why it is a "style" question.
In this case, how to start the daemon? A cron job for the user "weather" instead of for me? If I put them in rc.local or inittab they will run as root (is that right?).
in which case you're starting the command as user, not root. To be honest, I've not added entries into inittab for 15 years! Whether that's good or bad is up for debate. I much prefer the init.d, then monitor with a cron job approach to an inittab respawn.
Steve
You might like to save the pids in the directory /var/run
It's then easy to check that they are still running unambiguously, and to
kill them off simply.
Neat.
Thanks,
Andy
