Allow user associated with process to stop it. #21
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As explained in #20 the process stored in
/var/run/pid_file
is the PID for the commandsudo -U <user> <cmd>
which causes an error when the user attempts to stop the process sincekill <pid>
is not allowed because the pid is owned by root.pgrep -U "$user" -xf "$cmd"
captures the pid for the actual running script which is owned by$user
, therefore allowing them to successfully stop the service without sudo.