Re: [Devmon] Running Devmon as Hobbit User

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Monday 16 March 2009 14:56:28 Geoff Hallford wrote:
> Thanks. Forgot about the execute (duh!). I don't believe devmon was
> designed to run as a normal user

It was. The Mandriva package, the packages I provide for RHEL, and all my 
systems, have devmon running as non-root (as 'devmon').

> though, as I also can't stop the daemon as
> a normal user,

Which user the daemon runs as, and which user can start/stop it are different 
issues.

> as killproc is in /sbin. I know I can move that to /bin but
> I don't think that is safe.

The init script may not have been tested with your distro ... on Red-Hat-style 
systems, killproc is a function defined in /etc/rc.d/functions, which is 
sourced by the init script.

Newer versions of the initscripts package (e.g. RHEL5 and newer) have a 
killproc which works with pid files in subdirectories of /var/run, which is 
used correctly by devmon 0.3.1-b1 (and if not present, it uses an internal 
function which is basically a copy of the newer killproc) to more reliably 
shut devmon down when running as non-root.

> Stopping Devmon: /etc/rc.d/devmon: line 28: killproc: command not found

Here are some options:

1)Adjust the PATH in the init script to  include /sbin
2)Submit a patch or new init script for your OS/distro
3)Use packages supplied by your OS/distro


Regards,
Buchan