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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by chraebsli to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We use it to trigger service restarts.

touch tmp/service-restart.txt

Using monit to detect the timestamp change and do the actual restart command.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is an interesting idea to allow non-root users to restart a service. It looks like this is doable with systemd too. https://superuser.com/a/1531261

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Indeed. Replacing monit with systemd for this job is still on our todo list.