[ale] Need help with running a process from systemd or ???

[Mark@markulmer.com]

Have a look at Monit (https://mmonit.com) which seems to do this exactly. 

Mark

> On Apr 22, 2017, at 6:50 AM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> 
> The situation is that I have a perl script that needs to stay running as long as the system is up.  I also need to be able to restart the script at will.  I'm currently running it in an infinite loop shell script and it works, but I'm starting it manually.  I think I have figured out how to run it via systemd using the Restart=always option, but the application that needs to restart it isn't running as root.  Currently it's restarted by sending a KILL to the pid that was stored in the script.  The killing program is a web page running PHP.
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 server.
> 
> I don't see a way to run the serviced script as another user.  I suppose I could configure sudo to run kill without a password.
> 
> Anyway I'm looking for advice as to the best way to handle this situation.  Simpler is better.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim.
> 
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