If you have sudo access, you can run a command as a particular user using sudo -u.
`sudo -u flume flume-ng <config options> &` Also, if you installed Flume via RPM or Deb package, there should be an init.d script, though I'm not positive what user that script runs as. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Babu, Prashanth <prashanth.b...@nttdata.com> wrote: > Or if you want to view the console from time to time, you can use > screen[1] or tmux[2] on Linux and launch Flume agent and leave it running > and detach from the console(s). > > > > Links: > > 1: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen > > 2: http://tmux.sourceforge.net > > > > > > *From:* Christopher Shannon [mailto:cshannon...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 08 August 2014 14:32 > *To:* user@flume.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Running an agent > > > > flume-ng blah blah & > runs in backround > > On Aug 8, 2014 8:19 AM, "Charles Robertson" <charles.robert...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm currently running my agent by ssh'ing in to the box and executing the > flume-ng agent command. > > This seems to have two effects (but please correct me if I have this > wrong): > > 1. It seems to run in the context of the ssh session, so if the connection > dies (from what I can understand from the logs) the agent shuts down. It > also means that session never returns to the command prompt. > > 2. It executes as the user I'm logged in as (which isn't the flume user.) > > So, my questions are: > > How can I run my agent in the background, without necessarily having to be > logged in? Also, how do I make it run as a specified user? (Although this > might be covered by the answer to the first.) > > Thanks, > Charles > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Disclaimer:This email and any attachments are sent in strictest confidence > for the sole use of the addressee and may contain legally privileged, > confidential, and proprietary data. If you are not the intended recipient, > please advise the sender by replying promptly to this email and then delete > and destroy this email and any attachments without any further use, copying > or forwarding >
