On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 20:40 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, RW wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:06:43 -0700 (PDT) > > John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> > >>> service spamd start > >>> - run your stuff > >>> service spamd stop > >> > >> I don't think the OP wants to mess around with the global system > >> services, so it's not _quite_ that simple... > > > > Actually it is. You can run spamd as an ordinary user. > > "service spamd" executes the system-level init script for the global > spamd. It has nothing to do with running spamd as an ordinary user. > So use "sudo service spamd start|stop|status" - you can even embed it in a shell script. No problem. I do exactly that in my SA rule development rig.
Martin
