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