if you're in Ubuntu and want to exec a process with elevated privileges try Coggshall's (sp?) sudo utility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo
Martin ______________________________________________ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender does not endorse distribution to any party other than intended recipient. Sender does not necessarily endorse content contained within this transmission. > Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:34:56 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: jsvc creates pid file owned by root > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=31984 Posted on > > behalf of a User > > > > > >>> You shouldn't be messing about with the ownership of the PID file. It is > >>> created by jsvc at startup. If you use jsvc properly it will start as > >>> root, create the pid file, startup tomcat ... > >>> > > > > Ah, but what if you are using jsvc to run something other than tomcat? > > > > I am using jsvc to run a standalone java application as a daemon that > > starts whenever the server is restarted. However, I would like a certain > > user other than root to be able to run the same launching script for this > > daemon to start and stop the service as needed. > > > > I find I cannot do it because of the permission on the .pid file. No > > matter where I put the pidfile and no matter whether or not I run umask in > > the launching script, the pidfile gets created with an owner of root and > > perms of 600. > > > > If I run umask 133 and then create a file, I get perm 644 as I want on the > > file. But the same does not work from within my jsvc-launch script with > > the pid file. > > > > Nothing I've tried works. > > > > In Response To: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I can start and stop Tomcat 5.5 with the jsvc program but the problem is > > that the pid file is created with permissions 600 and owned by root. > > I want to be able to read the pid file to check if the Tomcat process is up > > and running > > and also for other purposes. > > > > Is it possible to make the pid file be owned by the user that runs Tomcat or > > have the permissions to be set to 666? > > > > Regards > > Gunnar > > > > > I am the anonymous author of the piece you're responding to. What a > coincidence seeing it bounce back here on the Tomcat list - Of course, > my example did NOT concern Tomcat. > > Anyway my JSVC daemon needs to fulfill two needs: > 1) restart the application on bootup - which is done by root > 2) allow non-root user to start-stop the application using the standard > daemon start/stop/restart kinds of commands. > > The only way I could get this to work was to modify my shell script to > change the permissions and the group of the pid file after the jsvc > start call was made. This works very nicely. Putting a call to umask in > the script before the jsvc invocation did not work. I still don't know why. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/
