Not able to Start td-agent as root user

Question

I am new to td-agent conf .I want to start td-agent as root user,I modified user and group in the /etc/init.d/td-agent as root .Ultimately systemctl want to do start and stop the service .But still ps -ef |grep td-agent shows as td-agent user.

Please provide your inputs.

I dont want to use this way bec I have to automate stopping td-agent wil be like I have to kill process "/opt/td-agent/usr/sbin/td-agent -vvv -c td-agent.conf"

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '21 at 11:04

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You can change the user and group in the "/lib/systemd/system/td-agent.service" file from:

[Service]
User=td-agent
Group=td-agent

to

[Service]
User=root
Group=root

Finally, do a daemon-reload and a service (Fluentd/td-agent) restart

answered Jun 16 '21 at 11:04

Gianluca Pinto

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Is there a way to set this automatically via td-agent api? – Mohit Motwani Feb 06 '23 at 13:47
You can use RUN `sudo sed -ir "s/^[#]*\s*User=.*/User=root/" /lib/systemd/system/td-agent.service` to set the User to value to root. Similarly for Group – Mohit Motwani Feb 06 '23 at 16:24

Not able to Start td-agent as root user

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