Re: [Burp-users] pid file when server is run as user under Ubuntu

[Ziirish <zi...@zi...>]

Hello,

Thanks for this nice trick.
It definitely deserves a wiki entry or something.

I'll even add it in my repository README file.


* On Monday, March 06, 2017 at 05:29 PM +0300, Marat Khalili <mk...@rq...> wrote:
> This is more an answer than a question, but I'd of course appreciate 
> feedback.
> 
> I installed burp-server from the great ziirish repository on Ubuntu 
> 16.04 and changed user and group parameters in burp-server.conf to 
> non-root user "burp". Then it failed to start due to not having enough 
> access rights to create /var/run/burp-server.pid . Providing necessary 
> access rights is easy but only works until next reboot, since in Ubuntu 
> /var/run is symlinked to /run which is located on tmpfs. Changing 
> pidfile location to different place like user's home directory is 
> possible but ugly.
> 
> Turns out there's now a canonical way to create temporary files with 
> necessary access rights in Ubuntu. Just put following contents to 
> /etc/tmpfiles.d/burp-server.conf:
> 
> > #Type Path                     Mode UID GID  Age Argument
> > f     /var/run/burp-server.pid -    burp burp -   -
> Then it will be created automagically on reboot belonging to burp.
> 
> Hope this helps someone, possibly even package author :)
>