Metricbeat as unprivilleged user with init.d

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Hi,

In the past I always installed metricbeat and filebeat with centos 7+ which uses systemd. There I managed to run both beats as unprivileged user.

I am much familar with init.d, but I need to install the beats on centos 6.x which use init.d.
How can I modify the init scripts or the installation method to run metricbeat as service (automatically starts on boot) and as unprivilleged user?

Can you give a hint or solution?

Thanks, Andreas

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found it.

The optional file /etc/sysconfig/metricbeat is sourced during the init process.
So do the following:

  • create file /etc/sysconfig/metricbeat with content:

BEAT_USER=MY_NON_ROOT_USERNAME

Maybe it helps someone.

Regards, Andreas

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