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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Found out I needed to install polkit. Haven't come across this before but looks interesting!<br><br>bash-4.3$ systemctl start tomcat@instance1<br>==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===<br>Authentication is required to manage system services or units.<br>Authenticating as: Fedora Cloud User (fedora)<br>Password: <br>==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===<br>bash-4.3$ ps -ef | grep java<br>tomcat 11056 1 0 09:44 ? 00:00:02 /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java -classpath /usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/lib/java/commons-daemon.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcats/instance1 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat/temp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcats/instance1/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start<br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: edwardquick@hotmail.com<br>To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org<br>Subject: systemctl start service as non-root<br>Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 09:57:12 +0000<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Fedora Users,<br><br>Does anyone know if it's possible to start a service using systemctl without root privileges?<br><br>For example, I've set up a tomcat instance, which starts up fine when issuing systemctl start with root:<br><br>[root@fedora22 tomcats]# systemctl start tomcat@instance1<br>[root@fedora22 tomcats]# ps -ef | grep java<br>tomcat 11056 1 46 09:44 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java -classpath /usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/lib/java/commons-daemon.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcats/instance1 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat/temp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcats/instance1/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start<br><br>But when trying to run the command as the tomcat user which owns the instance there's a message below I'm not sure about:<br><br>[root@fedora22 system]# sudo -u tomcat bash<br>bash-4.3$ id<br>uid=91(tomcat) gid=91(tomcat) groups=91(tomcat) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023<br><br>bash-4.3$ systemctl start tomcat@instance1<br>Failed to start tomcat@instance1.service: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files<br>bash-4.3$ <br><br><br>Thanks for any help.<br>Edward<br> </div>
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