Re: non-root runit

[Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:51:14AM -0400, Wes Chow wrote:
> We're looking into the possibility of messing with runit to allow 
> non-root users to start and stop their own services.  I believe this 
> might be as easy as running an instance of runsvdir (one per user) from 
> within runit.  Does anybody have experience doing something like this?

That's how I do it.  For each user that should have personal service
supervision, I create a service like this

$ cat /var/service/sv-pape/run 
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
exec chpst -m5000000 -upape runsvdir ~pape/service
$ 

and a log service.

Regards, Gerrit.