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OK, I've got it coded up, but one thing is puzzling me. It seems to only run as root. Is there a way to add a "runas" option? Also, that article has me running:
update-rc.d filename defaults
in order to create the service. I'm more familiar to doing it this way:
>chkconfig --add MyService
>chkconfig --level 2345 MyService on
Are there advantages to using update-rc.d? Thanks!
And I also see by looking around that this script is based on using update-rc.d rather than chkconfig. So is update-rc.d the Linux "best practice"? Sorry for all the questions, trying to get my head around this for future consideration... Thanks!
It depends on the distribution. In the referenced thread the OP is running Ubuntu which is debian based which uses update-rc.d. Redhat based distributions use chkconfig but with the lastest using systemd it is completely different.
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