start stop scripts for application

[Jon Gomersall]

I need to start and stop an application by a specific user NOT root..

[Patrick Terlisten]

Hello,

try running "su $USERNAME -c $COMMAND".

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Patrick

[Ivan Ferreira]

Does that means that you want that a normal user (not root) should be able to start an application? If so, use SUDO.

[Jon Gomersall]

I want to start an appication as a specific user when the server boots up...

Also need to shutdown the applications as the same user on system shutdown.

[Ben Stokes]

e.g. If your user is called jim and your application is /home/jim/application, you could add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

su -c '/home/jim/application' jim &

[Jared Middleton]

One possible example...

/etc/init.d/myapp:
-------------
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 235 99 10
# description: myapp Startup/Shutdown Script

case "$1" in
start)
su -c "/app/start_myapp - USERID
touch /var/lock/subsys/myapp
;;
stop)
su -c "/app/stop_myapp - USERID
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/myapp
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
;;
esac
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[Stuart Browne]

You might also want to look at the 'runuser' command.

It will do basically the same thing for what you're intending, but bypasses some of the PAM checks.

If you're on a RedHat/Centos system, you might also want to use the built-in 'functions' that are available to the init.d startup/shutdown commands, in particular the 'daemon' command (with the '--user ' flag). This wraps various things and ends up calling 'runuser', but also logs it in the same fashion as all the other commands.

The 'killproc' routine however doesn't have any as-user support however.