From: Mark McLoughlin (mark at domain skynet.ie)
Date: Thu 30 Aug 2001 - 11:29:53 IST
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>
> Take of cron reminds me of something that I've vaguely wanted for a
> while. To be able to register a program as an ordinary user to be run on
> system startup. It always seems a pity to have a cron regularly
> scheduled for every hour or so so see if something you want to be
> running constantly is still running and restart it, when you are
> confident that it will never crash out itself, and will only not be
> there in the case of a system reboot. An additional symbolic time name
> for at would do the trick, something like
>
> at boot + 1 hour
>
> would be neat.
Or perhaps allowing users to have their own rc.d directories
locted in $HOME/.rc.d/* where the scripts would be run using the users
priveledges...
Very useful if you want to split the administration of
different daemons on a server between different users...
Good Luck,
Mark.
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