[Devmon] Running Devmon as Hobbit User

[Geoff H. <geo...@gm...>]

Hi All,

Is there a way to get Devmon to run as a normal user (Hobbit user)? For me,
even if I change permissions on the /var/lock/subsys folders, it will not
let it run as a normal user. I get the following error:

touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/devmon': Permission denied

Reason I want this is so when Devmon goes purple, I can have hobbit (as the
hobbit user with group users), run the command to restart the daemon
automatically instead of scheduling restart cron jobs.

Thanks.

Geoff Hallford

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Permissions:

*AS ROOT*

bigbrother:/var/lock # whoami
root

bigbrother:/var/lock # ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxr-t   4 root uucp   96 Mar  9 09:13 .
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root  408 Mar  9 08:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   48 Jul 10  2008 dmraid
drwxrw-rw-   3 root users 208 Mar 16 08:25 subsys

bigbrother:/var/lock # cd subsys/

bigbrother:/var/lock/subsys # ls -l
total 0
drwxrw-rw-  3 root users 208 Mar 16 08:25 .
drwxrwxr-t  4 root uucp   96 Mar  9 09:13 ..
-rwxrw-rw-  1 root users   0 Mar 15 09:15 sec.pl
-rwxrw-rw-  1 root users   0 Oct 23 14:00 smbfs
-rwxrw-rw-  1 root users   0 Mar 15 09:15 snmptrapd
-rwxrw-rw-  1 root users   0 Mar 15 09:15 snmptt
drwxrw-rw-  2 root users  48 Sep  9  2005 sysconfig

*AS HOBBIT*

hobbit@bigbrother:/var/lock> whoami
hobbit

hobbit@bigbrother:/var/lock> ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   48 2008-07-10 13:18 dmraid
drwxrw-rw-  3 root users 208 2009-03-16 08:25 subsys

hobbit@bigbrother:/var/lock> cd subsys/
-bash: cd: subsys/: Permission denied

hobbit@bigbrother:/var/lock> ls -l subsys/
/bin/ls: subsys/smbfs: Permission denied
/bin/ls: subsys/sysconfig: Permission denied
/bin/ls: subsys/sec.pl: Permission denied
/bin/ls: subsys/snmptt: Permission denied
/bin/ls: subsys/snmptrapd: Permission denied
total 0