On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:24, you wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:17, Andrew Errington wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a "style" question regarding a process that I wish to run all > > the time. > > You don't mention which distribution you are running, we can only reply > in general terms.
General is fine, but I'm running Debian 3.0 (Woody) > The quick and dirty way is to make an entry into the file provided for > the purpose. There will be a file in the /etc/rc.d directory tree ( > RedHat et al ) into which you can put commands to run at the end of the > start-up sequence. The file is called /etc/rc.d/rc.local on mandrake ( > 8.? ) and Other dists. will use something similar. > > imho ( as a purist ) you should run these daemons using their own user. > The data can then be stored in their home directory also. Well this is exactly the kind of answer I'm looking for, which is really why it is a "style" question. In this case, how to start the daemon? A cron job for the user "weather" instead of for me? If I put them in rc.local or inittab they will run as root (is that right?). > You might like to save the pids in the directory /var/run > It's then easy to check that they are still running unambiguously, and to > kill them off simply. Neat. Thanks, Andy
