Starting JBoss ON agent as a service on Linux fails due to rhq-agent.pid being written to the wrong location when using su with its -l or --login option

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • pid file is not created in the correct directory
  • agent appears to hang

Environment

  • JBoss Operations Network (ON) 3.1
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Starting JBoss ON agent using RHQ_AGENT_START_COMMAND value of su -m -l jboss -c '${RHQ_AGENT_HOME}/bin/rhq-agent.sh'

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