Re: User Based Init

2003-08-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:24:10AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > One can't start or stop anything that requires a port under 1024 (such > as apache) without root permissions. You'll have to give them those, no > other option. > > You do have the option to go with sudo, however. Sudo allows you t

Re: User Based Init

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Makholm
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One can't start or stop anything that requires a port under 1024 (such > as apache) without root permissions. You'll have to give them those, no > other option. Apache doesn't require a port under 1024. By default it is set up to use port 80 på it is

Re: User Based Init

2003-08-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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 r

Re: User Based Init

2003-08-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:00, 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? Actually I think that the @reboot option for cron should be extended. There are many situations in which you may want to run per-user

Re: User Based Init

2003-08-25 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003, Jerry Haltom wrote: > [per-user init scripts] > > (yes I realize fetchmail could be started from cron, which notably also > has a similar per user idea) And it also has a similar "at startup" idea, see crontab(5). -- Sam.

Re: User Based Init

2003-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
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 r

Re: User Based Init

2003-08-25 Thread Jerry Haltom
Oh. :D My bad. :D That definatly counts as a "wtf are you thinking!" Thanks! On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 19:33, Sam Hocevar wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003, Jerry Haltom wrote: > > > [per-user init scripts] > > > > (yes I realize fetchmail could be started from cron, which notably also > > has a simil