GlassFish V4 – Running as a service with user different from root on Ubuntu Server 14.04

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I’ve used a «sysadmin» user in Ubuntu 14.04 to install the GlassFish server (I’ve just downloaded and unzipped the Web Profile version).

Note: «sysadmin» is just the name I chose to use for the user, it is not a special user or anything like that

In the documentation it states that to start the server as a service in Linux you should execute the create-service subcommand, like so

sysadmin@server$ asadmin create-service

it should complain that you are not allowed to write on /etc/rc.d and you should run this command as a super user (root)

so, I did execute the following command

sysadmin@server$ sudo su -
root@server# asadmin create-service

and it did create the service correctly. It creates the script /etc/init.d/GlassFish_domain1. The problem is that this script runs as the root user.

First, let’s make a backup

root@server# cp /etc/init.d/GlassFish_domain1 /etc/init.d/GlassFish_domain1.bkp

then I modified the following lines to start GlassFish as the ‘sysadmin’ user

GF_USER="sysadmin"
GF_HOME="/opt/glassfish4/glassfish"
ASADMIN="$GF_HOME/lib/nadmin"
SU="su --login $GF_USER --command "
ASADMIN="/opt/glassfish4/glassfish/lib/nadmin"

case "$1" in
start)
    $SU "$ASADMIN start-domain    --domaindir /opt/glassfish4/glassfish/domains  domain1 &"
    ;;
stop)
    $SU "$ASADMIN stop-domain   --domaindir /opt/glassfish4/glassfish/domains  domain1 &"
    ;;
restart)
    $SU "$ASADMIN restart-domain   --domaindir /opt/glassfish4/glassfish/domains  domain1 &"
    ;;
*)
    echo "usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|help)"
esac

Now it should run as a regular user.

If you ever need to remove the service, there’s still a feature request for that. In the meantime you can use the update-rc.d command to remove the soft links to your script that it created in the corresponding folders /etc/rc0.d, /etc/rc1.d, /etc/rc…

sysadmin@server$ sudo update-rc.d -f GlassFish_domain1 remove

the -f option is to force removal even though the script /etc/init.d/GlassFish_domain1 hasn’t been deleted

sources:

Haz clic para acceder a administration-guide.pdf

http://aldemon.com/install-and-autostart-glassfish-as-non-root-user-linux/

Start GlassFish 4 automatically on CentOS 6


https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/update-rc.d.8.html

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