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[-] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 33 points 8 months ago

We use it to trigger service restarts.

touch tmp/service-restart.txt

Using monit to detect the timestamp change and do the actual restart command.

[-] dan@upvote.au 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Indeed. Replacing monit with systemd for this job is still on our todo list.

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