True, that works. I was just trying to give the example that hooked into the system's management, but what you have there works all the same :)
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Alex Efros <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 01:09:14PM -0700, Avery Payne wrote: > > Alice would like to have foobar service controlled by her. She asks Bob > to > > set up a user-specific service so she can do so. Bob creates a > directory, > > Or, if Bob refuses to do this, Alice can setup everything herself by > adding this to she's crontab: > > */1 * * * * exec chpst -L ~/service/.lock runsvdir ~/service/ > &>/dev/null & > > This add dependency on cron (which is usually available) and small (up to > 1 minute) delay before Alice's services will be started after OS reboot, > but doesn't need neither root privileges nor system-wide installed runit, > so you can use this even on most shared hostings (where you able to either > compile runit in home directory or upload runit binaries). > > -- > WBR, Alex. >
