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Re: Config file management utility



Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> Having a user for mrtg doesn't seem very appropriate to me, though.
> Mrtg is a simple program, that needs to run every 5 minutes. A user is
> overkill.

If a user is overkill then cron probably is too.  You'd probably do
fine with something like

(
	trap "" SIGHUP
	su nobody -c '
			while sleep 300; do
				whatever;
			done </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &
			echo $!
		' >/var/run/mtrg.pid
)


-- 
Raul


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