Re: [wnpp?] run, http://www.obsidian.co.za/run/
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:05:47 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 07:27:41PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:18:39AM +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
>> >I recently found a program called "run" which I find can be useful for
>> >keeping processes running. Is there anything in Debian that can do
>> >stuff like that, or is anybody working on a run package?
>>
>> This type of behaviour is generally provided by init.
>
>Does run work for non-root users?
In its generic form, the run binary is suid root and drops its
privileges before it invokes its parameters. I am not particularly
fond of that idea, but it needs to write to /var/run. /tmp/run would
be a different choice for the run file, but I don't want reboots and
tmpreaper to interfere with it.
Maybe using a group "run" and having a 775 root.run /var/run/run would
be a possibility here?
Greetings
Marc
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