sudo /etc/init.d/nagios

James bjlockie at lockie.ca
Tue Sep 16 05:59:18 CEST 2008


Matthew Stier wrote:
> First, I suspect you have two typo's on the subject line.
>
> Second, If sudo won't run sudo, you probably have sudo configured not 
> to be run as root.
>
> Third, boot scripts should be written to be run by root, and if it 
> needs to change users, that should be done with 'su' with the '-c' 
> option, and a simple command-line.
I can only run the script as sudo and I can't reboot the machine.
Is there any other way to change users besides su since I can't run su?
>
> Fourth, boot scripts should test for everything.  If you reference 
> something outside the core operating system, you should test that it 
> is present, rather than blindly assuming it is there, and crashing.
>
>
> James wrote:
>> I'm having trouble running the init script with sudo.
>> I changed the su to use sudo but then I can't run the script with sudo
>> because sudo can't run sudo.

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