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

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

under [Service] include a line "User=<username>".
Does that not work?

On 04/22/2017 06:50 AM, Jim Lynch 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.
>