Never mind! Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. I just figured it out.
After the line where I added my ARGS= statement is the section:
> if [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ]; then
>
> . /etc/default/$NAME
>
> fi
which, in my hurry, I overlooked. The file /etc/default/bacula-sd includes the
default parameter assignments for user & group. Since this followed my
assignment, my assignment was being overridden.
Cheers!
On Thursday, July 07, 2016 11:12:01 AM C M Reinehr wrote:
> Heitor,
>
> Thanks! That was my understanding. The file, /etc/init.d/bacula-sd, includes
> the shell function:
> > do_start()
> > {
> >
> > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
> > --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- -c $CONFIG $ARGS
> >
> > }
>
> So, along with the other parameter assignment statements I added:
> > ARGS="-u root -g bacula"
>
> thinking that this would do it after a restart. But, it didn't. after the
> restart bacula-sd still was running as bacula/tape. Either those are not the
> correct options or they are being overridden somehow -- or I just don't
> understand shell programming. :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Thursday, July 07, 2016 12:55:44 PM Heitor Faria wrote:
> > Hello, Mr. Reinehr,
> >
> > You can change those editing daemon script: /etc/init.d/bacula-sd
> >
> > Regards,
>
>
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>
> > Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified
> > Administrator II
> >
> > 61 8268-4220
> >
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>
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> > Enviado por TypeApp
> >
> > Em 7 de jul de 2016 12:52 PM, em 12:52 PM, C M Reinehr <cmr AT amsent DOT
> > com>
>
> escreveu:
> > >This question is directed to those familiar with the packaging of
> > >Bacula for
> > >Debian Linux systems. I am completing the installation of Bacula
> > >(v5.2.6) for
> > >a Debian "Stable" ("Jessie", v8.5) system and have a question about the
> > >user &
> > >group identity of the bacula-sd daemon.
> > >
> > >>From running the command `ps -ef` I determined that the default
> > >
> > >identity is
> > >user: bacula & group: tape. Since I'm doing backups only to disk, for
> > >convenience I want to change the group to bacula, but I haven't been
> > >able to
> > >figure out how.
> > >
> > >Unless I've overlooked something the documentation states only that you
> > >CAN
> > >change the user & group of the running daemons but doesn't explain how.
> > >By
> > >examining the manual pages for the daemons I saw the options "-u
> > ><user>" & "-g
> > ><group>" that could be added to the bacula-sd command so I attempted to
> > >add a
> > >"$ARGS" argument to the bacula-sd SysV init file. It didn't work. I'm
> > >pretty
> > >sure that I did this correctly but bacula-sd always runs as
> > >bacula/tape. (FYI,
> > >this worked in previous versions of Bacula that I have used.)
> > >
> > >What have I missed & where can this be changed?
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >
> > >--
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