FC4: su fails in init.d script

Markku Kolkka markkuk at tuubi.net
Mon Jul 11 10:09:16 UTC 2005


Vasiliy Gagin kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 11. 
heinäkuuta 2005 03:19):
> One of my scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d directory (jboss to be
> exact) is using "su - jboss" and is failing during start up
> with message:
>
> su: Permission denied
>
> It works fine if I login as root and run it through "service
> jboss start".
>
> I was under impression that during start up scripts in init.d
> are run as a root. Any ideas why is it happenning?

I have encountered the same bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160662

Try the "runuser" command as a workaround.
Add your experiences as comments to the bug.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi




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