I need to customize RedHat 9 to run a daemon with the following requirements: Daemon needs to: - run all the time in the background as it receives service requests via hardware not ports. - restart if it crashes. - run as a user other than root. Before the daemon can run: - certain rc5.d scripts need to have all started. So far I have thought of two possibilities: 1. An Entry In /etc/inittab --------------------------- But I can't find a method of running these entries as a non-root user. 2. An xinetd service -------------------- But I need the service to be running all the time in the background, and to restart if it crashes. I think I am asking for a cross between inetd(run all the time, run as non-root user), and inittab(respawn). If you have any ideas TIA. Cal McPherson Software Engineer ADTEC Communications Phone: +612 9213 9917 Fax: +612 9281 7575 Email: calm@xxxxxxxxxxxx Web: www.adtec.com.au - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
