From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/790 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Chow Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: non-root runit Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:51:14 -0400 Message-ID: <428229F2.6010302@athenacr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115827211 17867 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2005 16:00:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1026-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Wed May 11 18:00:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVtbh-0008IN-UO for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Wed, 11 May 2005 17:58:46 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 14452 invoked by uid 76); 11 May 2005 16:06:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 14283 invoked from network); 11 May 2005 15:51:38 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041012) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:790 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:790 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? I'm not subscribed to the list, so please cc me in your replies. Thanks, Wes -- Athena Capital Research LLC http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA5CA6644 Key fingerprint = FDE5 21D8 9D8B 386F 128F DF52 3F52 D582 A5CA 6644