[hobbit] Hobbit startup script.
Craig Cook
Craig.Cook at carquest.com
Tue Jun 9 15:04:18 CEST 2009
>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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