Re: [Devmon] Running Devmon as Hobbit User

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

Hi Malcolm,

I am running SUSE 10.0. The kill command is available to the normal users.
Can you please send me your sample rc script? Mine is below and has issues
obviously as a normal user.

#####################

#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 10
# description: An snmp data collector for the hobbit & BigBrother network
#              monitoring suites
# processname: devmon
# pidfile: /var/run/devmon/devmon.pid
# config: /usr/local/devmon/devmon.cfg

# source function library
#. /etc/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0

prog="/usr/local/devmon/devmon"

start() {
        echo -n $"Starting Devmon: "

        $prog
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/devmon
}

stop() {
        echo -n $"Stopping Devmon: "
        killproc devmon
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/devmon
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart|reload)
        stop
        start
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

#####################

Thanks.

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Malcolm Hunter <mal...@gm...>wrote:

> > Thanks. Forgot about the execute (duh!). I don't believe devmon was
> > designed
> > to run as a normal user though, as I also can't stop the daemon as a
> > normal
> > user, as killproc is in /sbin. I know I can move that to /bin but I don't
> > think that is safe.
> >
> > Stopping Devmon: /etc/rc.d/devmon: line 28: killproc: command not found
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> You should be able to run devmon as a user - I have it running as user
> "devmon". What OS are you running? For Linux, there is a Fedora-style rc
> script provided which has a RUNASUSER option in it.
>
> Also, I've not used killproc - I mainly use kill.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
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