Subj : Re: systemctl service w/ mis help...
To   : paulie420
From : Zip
Date : Wed Jan 20 2021 07:20:07

Hello paulie420!

On 18 Jan 2021, paulie420 said the following...
 pa> So... I created some systemctl services for running Mystic and MRC Chat
 pa> at boot

What does your mis.service file look like? (systemctl cat mis)

In general, when one runs applications as services with systemd, one shouldn't need to use sudo at all.

If the [Service] section of the mis.service file has User=pi and Group=pi (I guess the "pi" user has a group of its own, too?) in it then everything should execute as the "pi" user and "pi" group. The question is if that is enough.

Are you running MIS as "root" now (when you start it manually)?

 pa> Which I just don't understand because - if I'm running as sudo, and the
 pa> owner of the file is 'pi', doesn't sudo trump that?? Anyway... I just

What do the permissions look like ('ls -l /path/to/file' or 'stat /path/to/file') of some of the scripts that fail to launch?

If the owner is "pi" and the group is some group that "root" is *not* part of (e.g. "pi"), and there are no execution permissions for "other" (= not the owner, not the group), then execution by that other user (e.g. "root") would fail, even though "root" is "root". :-)

Best regards
Zip

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