On Thu, 4 May 2017, Jason Welsh wrote:
hey folks, we are migrating our tomcat setup over to centos 7. Im
converting init-scripts over to systemd services and whatnot.. One
thing that Ive noticed is that my systemd startup script cant seem
to write to /var/run as a non-root user to drop a pidfile.. If I
create a directory in /var/run owned by my user, it gets wiped out
on reboot.
Ive searched and found this
https://blog.hqcodeshop.fi/archives/93-Handling-varrun-with-systemd.html
which says to use ExecStartPre to fudge creating directories in
/var/run so what non-root users can write there..
Is that the suggested way to do this? It seems awful kludgey.
There are a couple of systemd-ish ways to handle this: tmpfiles or
within the tomcat service file.
The canonical method is to drop a configuration into /etc/tmpfiles.d/:
# /etc/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf
# this assumes tomcat daemon runs as user tomcat and
# group tomcat. alter as necessary.
d /run/tomcat 0700 tomcat tomcat -
See the systemd-tmpfiles(8) and tmpfiles.d(5) man pages. After you
install that file, do
systemd-tmpfiles --create
The second method is to add an ExecStartPre to
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tomcat.service, e.g.,
[Service]
Type=simple
EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/tomcat
# this assumes that TOMCAT_USER is defined correctly
# in the EnvironmentFile
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d \
-o ${TOMCAT_USER} -m 0700 /run/tomcat
ExecStart=/usr/libexec/tomcat/server start
# etc etc
If you go that route, then after editing the service file, do
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start tomcat
I'd recommend the tmpfiles route myself, but either will get you where
you want to go.
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Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
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