While system-level services are typically managed by /etc/init.d/* in Gentoo, these are maintained by root for all users. I'm interested in an end-user without root access who wants to 'run a service-like process' (for example, fectmail to poll remote accounts...) While an end user can easily run a daemon process or kill one, this doesn't persist across a reboot. I've tried using fcron to schedule user processes to re-start after a re-boot... but this feels like a hack.
Is there a standard Gentoo way to solve this (I presume common) task? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
