yuck. if you just want to manage daemons running as your own user, su and sudo shouldn't even be involved. On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:05:35 +0100 Owain Sutton <mail@owainsutton.co.uk> wrote:
How about using /etc/rc.d/ scripts with 'su user' to start the program as the relevant user (as per the rtorrent wiki suggestion, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rtorrent#rtorrent_Daemon_with_screen), and then sudo permissions to run 'sudo /etc/rc.d/foo start/stop' in .xinitrc and .bash_logout?
On 15:15, Mon 20 Jun 2011, XeCycle wrote:
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:15:14 +0800 From: XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> Subject: [arch-general] Anything to manage user daemons? To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> List-Id: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general.archlinux.org>
Hello. I need to start several programs after login and after startx. Now I write these directly in my .bash_profile and .xinitrc; but I'm not satisfied with this. They cannot be easily stopped after logout. To do that I think I'd record their PID and kill them in .bash_logout, also need to take care when they're manually stopped, and all these related problems.
So I think a set of scripts like the daemon managing from initscripts will be nice. But I can't write /etc/rc.d daemons, as they must be executed by a normal user.
Has anyone written such a tool?
Thank you.
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