Re: User Based Init
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> I'm curious how many "wtf are you thinking?" reactions can be gathered
> for the idea of a per-user init.d system?
>
> I see this need a bit, for users who do development with various
> services, but admin's not wanting to give them root for one reason or
> another. Such as, apache or other web servers. Fetchmail?
>
> (yes I realize fetchmail could be started from cron, which notably also
> has a similar per user idea)
>
> /var/lib/user-init/${uid}/init.d
> /var/lib/user-init/%{uid}/rc${runlevel}.d
>
> Would be started from /etc/init.d/user-init. Script would run in each
> runlevel and run each user's various scripts just like a normal init
> sequence, except chuid'd.
How about using @reboot lines in users' crontabs instead?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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