I am making an app using pygtk, glade, and quickly and want to make a daemon that runs in the background to provide unity notifications for alarms and events. I would like to find a way to not require root authentication after installing the *deb file. I have tried adding a script to the users crontab but it seems that would require the restart of crond. (which needs either root or a reboot) I was wondering if there was a project I should look at to see an example of a daemon in python or how I could go about this? Thank you in advance for any help and feel free to tell me I'm wrong!
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Daemons are usually run by root (although they sometimes change the user under they run). For a normal notification you don't need to create a daemon, just create a normal program and let it run at the start of a session. This way it will run with user privileges, and you will run a separate instance for each user. I have done this program, it's a bit more complex than what you need, as it uses different libraries to run in different systems but it is quite simple and maybe a good example. |
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