Re: Getting a process to run as root

[Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@googlemail.com>]

There we go solved, in my case at least. I kept the
/etc/sv/runsvdir-log_watcher/run file as it was but changed the
/home/log_watcher/service/log_watcher/run file to this:

#!/bin/bash

set -e

EXEC="sudo -u log_watcher ruby log_watcher.rb known_logs.yml"

# Run the script.
cd /home/log_watcher/log_watcher/current
export RAILS_ENV=production
exec $EXEC

The significant change was adding the "sudo -u log_watcher" to the
EXEC string. To be honest it seems horribly convoluted but it seems to
work just fine.

Again thanks for the help.