is there any alternate method to start/stop otm services?

sreedharpuppali · #1 (**permalink**) January 6th, 2010, 20:45

Hi I am new to otm world admin. Is it must to have dba sudo or root privs to start/stop services. I have web and application servers file (script) locating under /etc/init.d/otmweb60/otmapp60.

Science scripts are owned by otm user, I tryied to start with that user I get the below error. Wonder if any one using other methods.

otmweb60: line 12: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
Starting Tomcat Web Container...
Starting Apache
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address xxx.xx.xxx.xxx.
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

Thank you Sreedhar

josephliang · #2 (**permalink**) January 7th, 2010, 00:40

The limitation (services must be started by root) does not come from OTM.
In UNIX, for security reason, any services that use port number < 1024 (e.g. http: 80), must be started by root.
To avoid hassle, some customers use sudo (Sudo Main Page) command to allow otm user to start/stop OTM.

sreedharpuppali · #3 (**permalink**) January 9th, 2010, 00:31

So , sudo is the only way to stop/start services.