I do get your answer though. There should be a script for the OS I am on
that calls runclient.sh and does the su there, not inside the runclient
script.
-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, 5 June 2009 8:30 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: David Peters
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit startup script.
On Friday 05 June 2009 12:09:00 David Peters wrote:
Hi,
I understand that hobbit needs to run as the hobbit user, but it is a bit
annoying to have the hobbit startup script require the hobbit user to run
it.
I don't quite understand the second part of your statement above ...
When I want to run it automagically out of /etc/init.d I have to change
the
script to not check for hobbit and then do an su to the hobbit user thus:
su -c "/home/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch
--config=/home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
--env=/home/xymon/server/etc/hob
bitserver.cfg --log=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.log
--pidfile=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.pid"
Which script are you referring to here? The "runclient.sh" script ?
why is it done this way rather than as above, thus allowing the server to
start out of init.d?
Have you looked at (e.g.) rpm/hobbit-init.d and debian/hobbit.init in the
source distribution ? They basically run 'su - hobbit runclient.sh ...', and
are suitable for use from /etc/init.d
Of course, the next question I have is, what Unix or Linux distribution are
you on, and why didn't you install from packages (which would have avoided
you
worrying about this in the first place).
Regards,
Buchan