Running Wildfire 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 6.06 Server. Every time the server is rebooted, wildfire.xml gets changed such that “root” is the owner instead of the “wildfire” user. So when wildfire tries to run, it throws errors that wildfire.xml isn’'t writable.
I probably did something wrong in how I setup wildfire to start at bootup, but I don’'t know what would cause this.
Thanks. That seemed to be the problem. Although I don’‘t know enough about linux to really make it correct, I did alter the wildfired script so everything seems to work just fine now. The wildfired script now invokes “chown” on the wildfire.xml file to set the correct owner. Kind of a band-aid solution but it’'s good enough.
I have downloaded and extracted wildfire to /opt/wildfire with root. Then i have created user jive and chowned /opt/wildfire recursively to jive user. Then i have copied wildfired to a /etc/rc.d (no init.d in my distro) with root, so it is owned by root, and changed it to executable mode. Wildfired daemon contains line
export WILDFIRE_USER=jive
so when my system starts up this daemon creates a session with jive user and starts wildfire. No ownership changes or problems. Should work the same in all linux distros, imho.