Re: Invoking runsvctrl as non-root

[Anthony Baker <abaker@ncube.com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 01:03, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
> >>I'm running into a permissions issue trying to invoke runsvctrl as a
> >>non-root user
> > 
> > As the message implies, you need to give some permissions to the
> > user you want to allow runsvctrl and runsvstat -- most particularly, write
> > access to the socket ./supervise/control and read access to ./supervise/ok
> > and ./supervise/status.
> 
> The trick is to manually change the access permissions, so other users 
> can access the service.  Make sure they are the users you want to be 
> able to access the service!  I am pretty sure those permissions will 
> stick and runit won't overwrite them, unless the 
> directories/files/sockets are deleted and re-created.  UMASK might come 
> into play here, but I'm not sure.
> 
Thanks for the suggestions, a "chown" in the run script prior to exec
did the trick.

Anthony