[gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote accounts...) While an end user can easily

Re: [gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:22:07 +, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example,

Re: [gentoo-user] User services best practice?

2006-11-13 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote