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minus-squareZürilinkfedilinkarrow-up33·9 months agoWe use it to trigger service restarts. touch tmp/service-restart.txt Using monit to detect the timestamp change and do the actual restart command.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months agoThis is an interesting idea to allow non-root users to restart a service. It looks like this is doable with systemd too. https://superuser.com/a/1531261
minus-squareZürilinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoIndeed. Replacing monit with systemd for this job is still on our todo list.
We use it to trigger service restarts.
touch tmp/service-restart.txtUsing
monitto detect the timestamp change and do the actual restart command.This is an interesting idea to allow non-root users to restart a service. It looks like this is doable with systemd too. https://superuser.com/a/1531261
Indeed. Replacing monit with systemd for this job is still on our todo list.