Le 13/05/2019 à 10:47, Martin Steigerwald a écrit :
> s@po, tuxd3v@??? - 11.05.19, 18:22:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> On Sat, 11 May 2019 11:26:12 +0200
>>
>> Martin Steigerwald <martin@???> wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Now that the proof of concept is out, I am thinking about extending
>>> it a little bit.
> […]
>>> What do you think about that?
> […]
>> In the past Debian Wheezy had a tool for that, called 'chkconfig', it
>> was a lot used in the Datacenter..
>> # Adding a Service 'atsd':
>> chkconfig --add atsd;
>> # Enable the service in several Runlevels:
>> chkconfig --level 12345 atss on;
> AFAIK that is a tool coming from RHEL/CentOS/Fedora that was dropped
> from Debian for some reason. It only works with system-wide services as
> far as I am aware of.
>
>> And other funcionalities, like listing the services and so on..
>> It was a very helpfull tool.
>>
>> In the absence of it( I don't know why it was removed .. ), your tool
>> seems to come to replace it, BUT for users only? :)
> I do not know why it was removed.
>
> And yes, my approach is just for user services. I already thought about
> making it a generic frontend for runit/s6, in order to also allow it to
> handle system services, in order to allow starting/stopping teamviewer
> services. But on one hand we have the init system with its tools for
> that already and on the other how to handle permissions would be
> something to be really clear about.
>
> Also I'd rather get rid of teamviewer than to provide support for it. I
> use it very rarely for support cases from customer of my employee.
>
>> I think it would be nice to call it like 'uservice', instead of
>> 'u[ser]service[s]', which is a lot bigger name, or a alias called
>> 'uservice', since 'service' is also another tool, to deal with..
>> services.
> I bet I'd make that a symlink or so, so the tool could work as either
> 'uservice' or 'userservice'. 'uservice' also has 'user' and 'service'
> in it. I also thought about just 'us' but Z-Shell would like to correct
> that to 'su' and… those really short command names are better reserved
> for commands that the likely user calls often, such as 'cp', 'mv' and so
> on.
>
> Ciao,
Why not call it Userd ? It can compare with Systemd. It's made for
the user, and user-friendly, and it does one thing, the thing it claims
to do.
Didier
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Re: [DNG] [RFC] User services
