Run as nobody on redhat-based systems #90
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Provide the
--user
argument todaemon
in the redhat init script - otherwise pystatsd runs as root.An empty pid file is created by root first because user
nobody
can't write to/var/run
.Also removed the default runlevels in the init script. The Redhat/Fedora guidelines say that "only services which are really required for a vital system should define runlevels". See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#Chkconfig_Header.