Hobbit startup script.

["David Peters" <davidp (at) electronf.com>]

Hi,

 

I understand that hobbit needs to run as the hobbit user, but it is a bit
annoying to have the hobbit startup script require the hobbit user to run
it.

 

When I want to run it automagically out of /etc/init.d I have to change the
script to not check for hobbit and then do an su to the hobbit user thus:

 

su -c "/home/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch
--config=/home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
--env=/home/xymon/server/etc/hob

bitserver.cfg --log=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.log
--pidfile=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.pid"

 

why is it done this way rather than as above, thus allowing the server to
start out of init.d?