[arch-general] Anything to manage user daemons?

Luštický Josef xlusti00 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz
Wed Jun 22 14:42:44 EDT 2011


V Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:09:34 +0200
Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> napsáno:

> 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 at 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 at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: [arch-general] Anything to manage user daemons?
> > > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux
> > > <arch-general at archlinux.org> Reply-To: General Discussion about
> > > Arch Linux <arch-general at 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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> > > Carl Lei (XeCycle)
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> > 

I think screen - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen


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