Re: Systemd unit file executed as non-root user, WAS: Systemd unit file: Can/Should ExecStart and ExecStop run a script?
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, reviving this conversation! I ran into the issue that user mythtv can not create the file /var/run/mythbackend.pid. I see other services that have their pid file owned by their own user... systemd doesn't really need a PID file to manage the service, can mythtv be told not to create it? If it insists on creating it see if you can move it to a subdirectory of /run (like /run/mythtv) that is owned by mythtv. Well PIDFile is recommended when using type forking. One option would be to drop the --daemon option and move to type simple. I tried this and it appears to work. Also, user mythtv can't write to the log file in /var/log/mythtv/ Change the ownership of /var/log/mythtv. I added install -d -o mythtv -g mythtv /var/log/mythtv to %post for the backend package. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Richard -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Systemd unit file executed as non-root user, WAS: Systemd unit file: Can/Should ExecStart and ExecStop run a script?
On 17/11/11 22:09, Richard Shaw wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Richard Shawhobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Olliej...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Richard Shawhobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, reviving this conversation! I ran into the issue that user mythtv can not create the file /var/run/mythbackend.pid. I see other services that have their pid file owned by their own user... systemd doesn't really need a PID file to manage the service, can mythtv be told not to create it? If it insists on creating it see if you can move it to a subdirectory of /run (like /run/mythtv) that is owned by mythtv. Well PIDFile is recommended when using type forking. One option would be to drop the --daemon option and move to type simple. I tried this and it appears to work. The other option is to create a file in /etc/tmpfiles.d that defines the /var/run/mythtv (or /run/mythtv) directory so that you can then write the PID file to it. Also, user mythtv can't write to the log file in /var/log/mythtv/ Change the ownership of /var/log/mythtv. I added install -d -o mythtv -g mythtv /var/log/mythtv to %post for the backend package. Is there a better way to do this? Yes! Create it in the %install section if the spec file and then add it to the files list. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
