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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