rhel init script uses sudo - cannot be run without a tty

[acobaugh]

Using a config management tool like puppet, cfengine, etc doesn't work when using the provided init script:

sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

I suggest using the daemon function provided by /etc/init.d/functions instead, as it will handle redirecting stdout as well.

[shawn-sterling]

Hello,

I would argue that you could use puppet/cfengine/etc to manager your sudoers and allow a tty for the particular user that was running it; but using a daemon function is likely a better solution.

Did you want to make a patch?

Have a good day.

-Shawn

[acobaugh]

Having to configure sudoers to allow root to sudo without a tty seems a bit icky. I'll provide an updated init script soon if nobody else gets to it sooner.

[acobaugh]

The first problem I've found using the daemon() function is graphios.py isn't actually a daemon. Not being familiar enough with python, I don't know how much work would be involved to make this happen.

In the short term, I'm going to pursue a command like this:

nohup su ${GRAPHIOS_USER} -s /bin/sh -c "${prog} ${OPTIONS}" >/dev/null 2>&1 &