Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 23:33:38 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> Cc: K Lu <kludev@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can non-root user create/start services? Message-ID: <20210518233338.1f73940c1dd3c6eba2e649d3@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <CAM8r67AxnSPoT9sDFucqNeGMyU%2BgOXhVMk1vzW0Utd2qoCntvg@mail.gmail.com> References: <ED008A9A-A5BE-4BEB-B636-D60295F59C8A@gmail.com> <CAM8r67CD1Sd9nFz=1Wrui414eVUNuRMRkOJp4BONeO%2Bgep2zMA@mail.gmail.com> <CAM8r67Az%2BNG2qRui3LDmzx4TEnRjEqwp8dim2_dL=Ds6sdjzQA@mail.gmail.com> <CAEz5-SwTQMsN351Ug=j72iNueE0YRiGTRGWJ_esp_jtZh7_pVg@mail.gmail.com> <CAM8r67AxnSPoT9sDFucqNeGMyU%2BgOXhVMk1vzW0Utd2qoCntvg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 18 May 2021 23:28:09 +0200 Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:52 PM K Lu wrote: > > Right, I don't want to change to root for those tasks. > > > > That's why I'm curious, if the user can define and start "per-user" > > services. Not sure if I elaborate the use cases well :) > > > > Another option I can think of is using user cron jobs. Are there other > > options? > > Cron is good to run periodic tasks - every hour, day, week, month. Also @reboot which is ideal for services. > You may want to put your local services into ~/.profile but that > requires login for them to be launched. They would not launch at boot. They would also launch for every login. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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