[Wrapper-user] Re: Wrapper-user digest, Vol 1 #544 - 1 msg

[Stephen S. <scs...@gm...>]

I don't mean to be dense or anything, but we're using Linux with
wrapper, and doing "su --command=" in a simple script placed in
/etc/init.d that calls out to the other script seems to do the trick:

...
start)
  su - myuser --command=/home/myuser/myapp start
...

Never tried this RUN_AS_USER thing, but it seems to me that Unix/Linux
have built-in commands to accomplish what it is you're trying to
accomplish anyway..

-Stephen.

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:39:22 -0800 Andrew Serff <an...@se...> wrote:
> To:  wra...@li...
> Subject: [Wrapper-user] Running Process as another user (RUN_AS_USER)
> Reply-To: wra...@li...
> 
> I'm having real problems trying to get my processes to run as another
> user other than root.  I'm running Solaris 8 and roots shell is sh.  My
> user i'm trying to run as has a shell of csh.  I have even taken out
> everything out of its environment to rule that out of the problem.
> My scripts work just fine when I run them from the command line.  I have
> it set up like so:
> 
> /etc/init.d/myapp -> linked to /home/myuser/myapp
> /etc/rc3.d/S99myapp -> linked to ../init.d/myapp
> 
> I can either just fine from the command line:
> # su - root
> # /etc/init.d/myapp start
> # /etc/rc3.d/S99myapp start
> 
> However, when I reboot the machine, I see the message "Starting
> Application Name..." message from the wrapper, but when I get to the
> command prompt and run:
> #/etc/init.d/myapp status
> It isn't running.  There is nothing written to my logs (both the
> wrapper.log or /var/adm/messages).
> If I set RUN_AS_USER to root (or comment it out), it works fine.  I have
> tried this on 2 different machines, with different users, with NIS users
> and local users, etc.  I have put a redirect to a file after the su
> command.  All i see in there is the rest of the output from the boot
> process for some reason.  I see "Starting OpenWindows in 5 seconds,
> control C to stop."
> 
> I have tried running just the complete su command and that works fine as
> well.
> I have also changed all my paths in all my config files to be absolute.
> I'm at a loss...any help in what I can try to debug it would be great.
> Andrew