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Petteri, |
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Thanks, there are indeed some solutions for users running X, but I |
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think a lot of services could benefit from being able to be started |
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without the user logging in (for example, webservers really should |
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launch clients' websites as fastcgi services at boot time) and without |
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having to run X anywhere. |
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As for who should handle this... there are some other ideas on the |
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ideas page concerning OpenRC, which I think is the most appropriate |
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project for this idea. And depending on the exact implementation, it |
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might very well be dependent upon the system's init.d software (in |
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this case OpenRC, but different distros use different systems). Ergo, |
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I'd say this idea does fit inside Gentoo's scope. |
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Auke. |
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 18.3.2010 16.58, Auke Booij wrote: |
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> |
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>> 2. Per-user daemons. Currently, there are some daemons, like |
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>> PulseAudio, jackd, several download daemons, and soon possibly X.org |
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>> (which will no longer need to run as root, and really should run as a |
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>> normal user), which run as specific users, instead of root or a |
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>> systemwide daemon-specific user. There is currently no framework for |
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>> launching these daemons at all, and the current solution is to either |
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>> make users figure out their own solution (a popular one is an extra |
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>> line in .xinitrc), or to set the username in some conf.d file, thus |
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>> disabling the possibility to run several of them for different users. |
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>> I would like to develop an extension to our current init.d system |
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>> which will enable users to write and start their own init scripts, |
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>> which at first only run as themselves, not as another user. This would |
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>> make it possible to cleanly launch several identical daemons for |
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>> several users. This project would involve either writing a new |
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>> additional init.d system, or extend our current system. I would like |
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>> to know 1. if you guys are understanding a word of what I'm saying at |
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>> all 2. if this would be an interesting idea (I think it is, of course) |
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>> 3. anyone has any ideas or would like to mentor me. |
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>> |
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> |
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> Isn't this something that should be handled by the upstream projects |
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> instead of doing it at the distribution level? Also see: |
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> http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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