Thanks, Igor, Axton and Fred. As Fred suggested, I had a set of "ar" processes still running as root, that "remedy" didn't have permission to kill. When I logged in as root and killed them then "remedy" was able to restart the system. Also the log files are now owned by "remedy."
Gratefully yours, Dwayne ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:15:35 -0500 >From: "Grooms, Frederick W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Accidentally installed email engine as root >To: [email protected] > >Did you make sure there were no remedy processes running as root before >you tried to start the system up from user "remedy"? > >The shutdown failed messages seem to suggest that Monitor and ServerD >were still running as root when you tried to restart. > >Also double check the etc/arsystem files for ownership by remedy > >Fred > >-----Original Message----- >From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dwayne Martin >Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 9:03 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Accidentally installed email engine as root > >Hello everyone, > >(ARS 7.01 patch 2, Red-Hat Linux server, Oracle 10.2 db) > >I installed the AR System as non-root "remedy" user. Then I changed to >root to give "remedy" permission to everything he needed to install the >Email Engine. But I forgot to switch back to "remedy" before doing >install. Consequently I installed the engine as root. > >I changed the ownership of all the objects in the install directory to >"remedy" and reinstalled as "remedy." > >The installation was successful. But when I try to restart the AR >System as "remedy" I get: >Action Request System Monitor shutdown failed. >Action Request System Server shutdown failed. > >Server log files, eg "filter.log" get created with "root" as the owner, >and with only "-rwxr-x---" permissions, so "remedy" can't read them. > >"armonitor", "arserverd", "arsystem" and everything else in the "bin" >directory all have "remedy" as their owner, and "-rwxr-xr-x" >permissions. > >I logged in as root and restarted the AR System, hoping that would reset >permissions, but it didn't. > >"root" still owns something very important. > >Any ideas? > >Dwayne Martin >Computing Support >James Madison University > >_______________________________________________________________________________ >UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the >Answers Are" Dwayne Martin Computing Support James Madison University _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
