[AMQ-7141] Running as as specific user while not root

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 5.15.8
• Component/s: Distribution
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Laurent Martelli
• Created: 25/Jan/19 16:39
• Updated: 25/Jan/19 16:39

Description

When starting as a casual user, if you happen to have config file that states ACTIVEMQ_USER=activemq, you get something like that :

$ ./bin/activemq start
INFO: Loading '/etc/default/activemq'
INFO: Using java '/usr/bin/java'
INFO: Starting - inspect logfiles specified in logging.properties and log4j.properties to get details
./bin/activemq: 338: ./bin/activemq: "/usr/bin/java"  -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//conf/login.config   -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.io.tmpdir="/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//tmp"                -Dactivemq.classpath="/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//conf:/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//../lib/:"               -Dactivemq.home="/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8/"               -Dactivemq.base="/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8/"               -Dactivemq.conf="/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//conf"               -Dactivemq.data="/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//data"                              -jar "/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//bin/activemq.jar" start >> /dev/null 2>&1 &
              RET="$?"; APID="$!";
              echo $APID > /home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//data/activemq.pid;
              echo "INFO: pidfile created : '/home/laurent/coopener/apache-activemq-5.15.8//data/activemq.pid' (pid '$APID')";exit $RET: not found

 

I propose the following patch to display a more explicit error message.