[rabbitmq-discuss] SuSE: 2.8.0 start script uses 'runuser'

[Steve Powell]

Yes, it would.

The setsid fix has gone into the 2.8.1 release, but means we are using su.

If anyone has any advice about the correct use of startproc
we would be very grateful to receive it.

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On 22 Mar 2012, at 14:14, Josh Geisser wrote:

> Thanks for the fast response
> 
> Actually, removing the whole START_PROG works as workaround for us with the 2.8.0-1.suse.noarch.rpm
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Cheers
> Josh
> 
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> Von: Steve Powell [mailto:steve at rabbitmq.com] 
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. März 2012 13:24
> An: Josh Geisser
> Cc: rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
> Betreff: Re: [rabbitmq-discuss] SuSE: 2.8.0 start script uses 'runuser'
> 
> Dear Josh,
> 
> Thanks for telling us about this -- this is rather embarrassing. In
> attempting to get Linux server installations to start the rabbitmq-service
> without blocking shutdown, we used runuser for certain systems. Our
> mistake.
> 
> A workaround ought to be to replace runuser in the relevant script, as
> below:
> 
> On line 29 (or thereabouts) in the rabbitmq-server script in init.d
> there is a line like this:
> 
> START_PROG="runuser rabbitmq --session-command"
> 
> which you should replace with:
> 
> START_PROG="setsid"
> 
> This will cause the rabbitmq-server service to be started with 'su'. Be
> aware that this might inhibit shutdown (since su creates a PAM session
> for the user rabbitmq).
> 
> We'll update our SuSE rpm file, when we find a proper solution to this.
> 
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> On 20 Mar 2012, at 08:34, Josh Geisser wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I just noticed that 'rabbitmq-server-2.8.0-1.suse.noarch.rpm' throws the following error when being started:
>> 
>> /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server: line 60: runuser: command not found
>> 
>> The old 2.7.1 packaged rc-script was just fine
>> 
>> FYI & cheers
>> Josh
>> 
>> /etc/SuSE-release sais we're using
>> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
>> VERSION = 11
>> PATCHLEVEL = 1
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