Friday, 16 August 2013

Is there something as flexible as crontab for user-level autostarts?

Is there something as flexible as crontab for user-level autostarts?

I'm looking for a flexible per-user initialization tool to kick off user
daemons when the system (re-)boots. I suppose something similar to crontab
would be great, which works for every user independently.
Of course this could be hacked by creating a crontab job and checking
whether or not the daemon is already running and staring it otherwise, but
it strikes me as not particularly clean (although it would have the
advantage of automatically restarting the daemon if it crashes,
irrespective of system starts).
Is there something along those lines or do I have to fall back to crontab?

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