Cal McPherson wrote:
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
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But I can't find a method of running these entries as a non-root user.
2. An xinetd service
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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
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Heya,
try daemontools: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
This mainly used for qmail, but by behaviour it fits best for your requirements (i think so ;)
Hope that helps.
Adios,
D
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