upstart question

[Johan Kiviniemi]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:19:38AM -0600, Benjamin Montgomery wrote:
> This seemed like a really easy thing to code up until I remembered
> that you need root privs to start and stop apache and mysql.  I don't
> want to be root when I log in, and I don't want the applet to be suid
> to root.

You could just use sudo. Something like this should work:

username ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/start apache, /sbin/stop apache

Cheers,
-- 
Jοhan Kiviniemi  http://johan.kiviniemi.name/
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