From: Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@googlemail.com>
To: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Getting a process to run as root
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:20:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALxYQy6eEzvtu-okAKYnk43AODV3AHv6i7iAwq7N8JAGhaQo3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I have an application that scans log files that is written in Ruby. It
is installed as the user log_watcher but needs to be run as root so
that it can have the rights to read the various log files that it
needs. Essentially the service/log_watcher/run file comes down to
"sudo ruby log_watcher.rb", the log_watcher user has passwordless sudo
rights.
We have runit / supervise installed but when we try and start the
application it complains about supervise/ok or supervise/lock being
unavailable which means that the process is not being restarted after
a reboot.
How do I get to run the process as root from the log_watcher user.
I've tried various things I've seen in the wiki and got back from
googling but nothing seems to work. Or perhaps there is another way
around this?
next reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 10:20 Peter Hickman [this message]
2012-04-25 13:07 ` Wayne Marshall
2012-04-26 15:11 ` Peter Hickman
2012-04-26 18:49 ` Wayne Marshall
2012-04-27 9:18 ` Peter Hickman
2012-04-27 11:13 ` Wayne Marshall
2012-04-27 13:44 ` Peter Hickman
2012-04-27 14:42 ` Peter Hickman
2012-04-27 14:56 ` Charlie Brady
2012-04-28 1:17 ` Laurent Bercot
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