I need to customize RedHat 9 to run a daemon with the following requirements:
Daemon needs to: - run all the time in the background as it receives service requests via hardware not ports. - restart if it crashes. - run as a user other than root. Before the daemon can run: - certain rc5.d scripts need to have all started. So far I have thought of one possibility: 1. An Entry In /etc/inittab(action=respawn) ------------------------------------------- A method I can think of is writing a shell script to su into my user and run the daemon: #!/bin/sh # # mydaemon.sh su -c "mydaemond" myuser If I add the the following entry into intitab: 100:5:respawn:/usr/local/bin/mydaemon.sh I am testing this scenario with a daemon which crashes almost instantly. It is being restarted very quickly 10 times in succession, then there is a larger gap until the next 10 respawns. Is there a better way of doing this? TAI. Cal McPherson Software Engineer ADTEC Communications Phone: +612 9213 9917 Fax: +612 9281 7575 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.adtec.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
