I've been faced with exactly the same problem and found out the problem to be a small inaccuracy in the bin/activemq script (version 5.10.0), when the ACTIVEMQ_USER variable is set to a dedicated system user AND this system user does have /bin/csh in /etc/passwd defined as default shell instead of /bin/sh (bash).
The fix is quite simple: In bin/activemq, find the (two) calls of 'su -c ...' and replace them by 'su -s /bin/sh -c ...'. That's all. This should get probably fixed in the ActiveMQ start scripts itself. -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/changing-user-fails-when-running-activemq-from-init-d-tp4685689p4717204.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
