Attempt to allow RHEL5(and derivatives) which use a old chroot

[lmorfitt]

Please see #49 for more details.

This is a attempt to fix the init scripts for RHEL5 (and friends).

Luke

[dartua]

it works!!! ALELUYA! Many thanks! My OS is oracle linux 5.6.

[lmorfitt]

@dartua Glad Its working for you. I've tested on RHEL 5.11 and all seems to work for me.

[FlorianHeigl]

We hit the same issues on SLES11 (or at least I think it's the same).
I'll try soon if this makes issues go away.

What I hated was that it still thinks it sucessfully started [x] done

[FlorianHeigl]

I think this patch has a typo since it runs sh -c, not su - -c or something like that ... is that intentional in any way?
It appears to be just dropping the user switching

[FlorianHeigl]

I'm currently using something like this to the same end.

Run the program!

#nice -n ${LS_NICE} chroot --userspec $LS_USER:$LS_GROUP $EXTRA_GROUPS / sh -c "
nice -n ${LS_NICE} sudo -u $LS_USER sh -c "
cd $LS_HOME
ulimit -n ${LS_OPEN_FILES}
exec "$program" $args
" > "${LS_LOG_DIR}/$name.stdout" 2> "${LS_LOG_DIR}/$name.err" &

[lmorfitt]

@FlorianHeigl - This was a quick hack to drop the user switching, as the chroot option was not available on RHEL5.

I personally no longer have a requirement to support RHEL5 systems and therefore a much better solution may now be available.

[jordansissel]

I'd be open to accepting a patch that included user switching support for these older distros. I appreciate your sharing of this quick fix, but it disables user switching, so I don't want to merge it. Hopefully folks who need a quick fix can use this PR, though.