[ale] Need help with running a process from systemd or ???

[Jim Lynch]

I missed that option.  I'd guess that'd work just fine.  The manual page 
I was looking at doesn't list it as an option.

Thanks,

Jim.


On 04/22/2017 06:56 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> under [Service] include a line "User=<username>".
> Does that not work?
>
> On 04/22/2017 06:50 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
>> The situation is that I have a perl script that needs to stay running as
>> long as the system is up.  I also need to be able to restart the script
>> at will.  I'm currently running it in an infinite loop shell script and
>> it works, but I'm starting it manually.  I think I have figured out how
>> to run it via systemd using the Restart=always option, but the
>> application that needs to restart it isn't running as root.  Currently
>> it's restarted by sending a KILL to the pid that was stored in the
>> script.  The killing program is a web page running PHP.
>>
>> I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 server.
>>
>> I don't see a way to run the serviced script as another user.  I suppose
>> I could configure sudo to run kill without a password.
>>
>> Anyway I'm looking for advice as to the best way to handle this
>> situation.  Simpler is better.
>>   
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