From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue May 18 22:33:55 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8118631230 for ; Tue, 18 May 2021 22:33:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4d20000bdcf57.800c33ad8c8c759c1437614cfa9973ca@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Fl9lQ6dCwz4ZVr for ; Tue, 18 May 2021 22:33:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4d20000bdcf57.800c33ad8c8c759c1437614cfa9973ca@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1621377235; x=1623969235; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=xysyUgzaB3NU2oOm6rGj/N6MJsiB5PhRWQhSjHuf3ZM=; b=XckKHZZX6u1eDWa9iKutXRKnmd2PcL+/OuWBuMT+7JY2Yiyf45YgIcvoBwTfj63OKEfqZJh7cDxrpBW53KBVcBUuwRprpsZLIsoExRYDYQu+vS5c+bGspwsvAtcwrq1AvLA65UzAFPKMkBCdU4vQIG8oT/LC/B1imvnTKzM6Ers= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDRkMjAwMDBiZGNmNTcuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.189.3]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Tue, 18 May 2021 18:33:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r3.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Tue, 18 May 2021 18:33:40 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.94 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1lj8HT-000BJa-5a; Tue, 18 May 2021 23:33:39 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 23:33:38 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Tomasz CEDRO Cc: K Lu , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: Can non-root user create/start services? Message-Id: <20210518233338.1f73940c1dd3c6eba2e649d3@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Fl9lQ6dCwz4ZVr X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=XckKHZZX; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4d20000bdcf57.800c33ad8c8c759c1437614cfa9973ca@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4d20000bdcf57.800c33ad8c8c759c1437614cfa9973ca@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.67 / 15.00]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4d20000bdcf57.800c33ad8c8c759c1437614cfa9973ca@email-od.com]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4d20000bdcf57.800c33ad8c8c759c1437614cfa9973ca@email-od.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.97)[-0.968]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from:127.0.2.255]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[gmail.com,freebsd.org]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 22:33:55 -0000 On Tue, 18 May 2021 23:28:09 +0200 Tomasz CEDRO 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