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Thomas Schwinge wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:44:46PM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
>  
>
>>>Or, if the complete service should be owned by the user, see
>>>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/795
>>>      
>>>
>>This is a "nicer" solution. Is this possible with daemontools, or only
>>using your runit package?
>>    
>>
>
>There once was a web page that described how to set up a service
>directory in a user's home directory.
>I can't find the URL at the moment, but the procedure was something like
>having a service /service/user_service-USER, which has
>#v+
>exec \
>setuidgid USER \
>svscan ~USER/service
>#v-
>... in its run file.
>  
>
Thomas,

If you find the link please let me know.

Also, what are the #v+ and #v- lines in the snippet above?

Thanks,

R.

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