[hobbit] Hobbit startup script.

[Craig Cook]

>Sorry I wasn't asking how to do it, just why the script has to run as
>hobbit when you install out of the box.

It's a security thing.  It is not good practice to run applications as root.  If someone exploits a "let to be discovered" bug in Xymon they will not be able to crash it and become root.

Craig
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