how to get user environment into /sbin/service

[zcwlinux]

please can anyone help.

i need to get root user environment when run e.g. "/sbin/service myapp start"

i have tried to include these lines in /etc/init.d/myapp:

. /etc/profile
. /root/.bash_profile

but i still cannot get the environment as logged on as root, verified by set.

i am using rhel 4.8

thanks
zcw

[lomcevak]

The problem is you can't access /root/.bash_profile because the permissions on the /root directory doesn't allow non-root users to access it.

You could change the permisions on the /root directory so non-root users has access it but strongly not adviced.

The thing to do would be take the parts of .bash_profile that non-root users need and place it in another script somewhere that anyone can access it and execute that.

[zcwlinux]

but "/sbin/service myapp start" is run by root, so it should have access to /root/*

[Rubberman]

You can write a script that sources /root/.bash_profile and then executes /sbin/service. You still need to be root to do this.

[zcwlinux]

but i think that /sbin/service runs on empty environment? if i set up environment first, then run /sbin/service, it may reset to empty, but worth trying. thanks. ideally we want to keep using /sbin/service.

You can write a script that sources /root/.bash_profile and then executes /sbin/service. You still need to be root to do this.

[Rubberman]

but i think that /sbin/service runs on empty environment? if i set up environment first, then run /sbin/service, it may reset to empty, but worth trying. thanks. ideally we want to keep using /sbin/service.

Well, it is a script itself that executes another script for the named service in turn. You might want to look at it in detail to see why you are losing your environment.

[zcwlinux]

en, i think that i may need to expand my problem description a little bit. it is grails/spring we used in our website, which is served by tomcat has this problem. Without this bit of grails/spring, tomcat works fine and can be started/stopped using /sbin/service. once this grails/spring is included, we can only start tomcat using any of the following:

/etc/init.d/tomcat start
/etc/rc5.d/S80tomcat start
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh

but "/sbin/service tomcat start" does not work and most importantly, tomcat will not start on reboot. even if i put $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh in /etc/rc.local, tomcat still cannot start on reboot.

Obviously, i have posted in tomcat and grails user groups, but no clue.

[Rubberman]

Thanks for the expansion of the situation. It's the "little" details like this that can save everyone a lot of time and effort giving you the wrong advice...

[zcwlinux]

hi

your inputa are very useful. i think that the problem is the environment. if i gave all the details it not likely i will have any suggestions.

thank very much i will try ut your suggestions wehn i can play with the server.

[Rubberman]

your inputa are very useful. i think that the problem is the environment. if i gave all the details it not likely i will have any suggestions.

Or, you might just find that there is someone on the forums that has had a similar experience and knows what to do to fix it... I just hate spending my valuable time going down dead-ends because the originator of the thread left out important information like you did.