[hobbit] Hobbit startup script.

[Buchan Milne]

On Friday 05 June 2009 12:09:00 David Peters wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
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> 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.


I don't quite understand the second part of your statement above ...

> 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:
>
>
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> 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"

Which script are you referring to here? The "runclient.sh" script ?

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

Have you looked at (e.g.) rpm/hobbit-init.d and debian/hobbit.init in the 
source distribution ? They basically run 'su - hobbit runclient.sh ...', and 
are suitable for use from /etc/init.d

Of course, the next question I have is, what Unix or Linux distribution are 
you on, and why didn't you install from packages (which would have avoided you 
worrying about this in the first place).

Regards,
Buchan