| thatguydan | Hey gents, I was hoping someone could help WRT the right way to execute a command as another user in a script stanza while preserving /etc/environment | 06:00 |
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| thatguydan | exec sudo -u user1 -i "/usr/bin/foo /opt/bar >> /var/log/bar.log 2>&1" works in shell, but doesn't in the upstart script | 06:01 |
| thatguydan | and I can't for the life up me get it working with su | 06:01 |
| thatguydan | I was trying to source the environment from /etc/environment.local, but I was having problems getting upstart to monitor the right PID | 06:02 |
| thatguydan | It was working if I sourced from /etc/environment.local with su, but no love with the PID's, that's why I'm trying to get it going with sudo | 06:03 |
| thatguydan | I've spent about a day on this, and the more I read the less I know | 06:05 |
| thatguydan | Is it at all possible to run a command as another user with upstart? | 07:41 |
| jodh | thatguydan: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#run-a-job-as-a-different-user | 07:45 |
| thatguydan | I've tried the su way of doing it, but stopping the service just leads the bash/su being killed, not the actual command i'm trying to run | 07:51 |
| thatguydan | su -s /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@"' username -- /path/to/command | 07:53 |
| thatguydan | that just did it | 07:53 |
| thatguydan | found after hours of reading | 07:54 |
| thatguydan | i can't believe the use case of running a command as non-privileged and passing through environment variables is so difficult to accomplish | 07:54 |
| thatguydan | or at least it was for me | 07:55 |
| thatguydan | i might be an idiot though | 07:55 |
| pixie79 | hi, it there a way to have two variables passed to an upstart job, i see we have instance which would allow one variable but i also need to import a second for example customer | 14:37 |
| SpamapS | you can pass as many variables as you want | 14:37 |
| SpamapS | pixinstance expands all variables | 14:37 |
| SpamapS | pixie79: ^^ | 14:37 |
| SpamapS | pixie79: so you can have instance $VAR1$VAR2$VAR3 | 14:38 |
| pixie79 | ok then i take it to start the job i would do something like, 'start job TTY=1 cust=demo' | 14:38 |
| SpamapS | pixie79: exactly | 14:39 |
| pixie79 | thanks | 14:39 |
| SpamapS | pixie79: note that if you have a 'start on' line you can also pick up any exported variables from jobs that cause you to start | 14:39 |
| pixie79 | ok | 14:40 |
| pixie79 | SpamapS: is there a way to require that the variables have both been given otherwise refuse to start? | 14:51 |
| SpamapS | pixie79: yes in pre-start you can check for them and if they're not set just run 'stop; exit 0;' | 15:04 |
| pixie79 | ok thanks | 15:04 |
| pixie79 | SpamapS: does this look ok? http://pastie.org/4575169 | 16:04 |
| pixie79 | at the moment when i run it i am getting unknown job | 16:07 |
| pixie79 | back later to fix my pre-start script | 16:21 |
| SpamapS | pixie79: you can try 'init-checkconf /etc/init/yourjob.conf' | 16:25 |
| SpamapS | pixwell if pixie79 comes back.. I think he fell victim to bug 328366 | 16:27 |
| SpamapS | s/he/they/ :-P | 16:28 |
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