servicectl

little service manager thing i made

How to set it up

1. Make a folder to hold all your services. ~/services works well for this.
2. Change every instance of /home/user/services/ to /path/to/your/service/folder/ in the script.
3. Add a user for each of your services, and set each user's home folder to /path/to/your/services/folder/<service name>/.
4. Privilege each user with the required privileges for each service. For example, a service to automatically update the system probably needs elevated privileges to use the package manager.
5. su to each service and make a ~/start.sh and ~/stop.sh file. In the start.sh file, put a shell script to start the service, and in the stop.sh file, put a shell script to stop the service. Make sure both scripts are executable.

How to use it

Start a service:

# ./servicectl start <service name>

Stop a service:

# ./servicectl stop <service name>

Run servicectl with no arguments to get a list of commands.