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Raspberry Pi --uid issue #99

@imsunburnt

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@imsunburnt

When running on Raspberry Pi Jessie lite I had to add quotes around the --uid option in file templates/sysvinit/initd.template. According to forever -help:
--uid Process uid, useful as a namespace for processes (must wrap in a string)
e.g. forever start --uid "production" app.js

Without adding the quotes the command:
sudo service service-name stop
would not stop the service.

I did not verify if this problem exists in Ubuntu.

I made the following changes in templates/sysvinit/initd.template (in two places):
FROM: --uid {{service}}
TO: --uid "{{service}}"

SNIPPET:
{% if runAsUser %}
touch $LOGFILE
chown {{runAsUser}} $LOGFILE

{{suprog}} - {{runAsUser}} -c "\
export FOREVER_ROOT={{foreverRoot}};\
{% if envVarsNameValueArray|default(false) %}{% for v in envVarsNameValueArray %}export {{ v[0] }}=$(printf "%q" {{v[1]}});\{% endfor %}{% else %}\{% endif %}
cd {{cwd}};\{% if applyUlimits %}
ulimit -f unlimited;\
ulimit -t unlimited;\
ulimit -v unlimited;\
ulimit -n 64000;\
ulimit -m unlimited;\
ulimit -u 32000;\{% endif %}
{{foreverPath}}forever \
	-a \
	-l $LOGFILE \
	--minUptime $MIN_UPTIME \
	--spinSleepTime $SPIN_SLEEP_TIME \
	--killSignal $KILL_SIGNAL \
	{{foreverOptions|default('')}} \
	--uid "{{service}}" \    <=========== added quotes ===================
	start {{script|default('app.js')}} {{scriptOptions|default('')}}" 2>&1 >/dev/null
{% else %}
# move to the directory from where the inital forever script was launched so that even if it is relative it works as expected
cd {{cwd}}

{% if applyUlimits %}
ulimit -f unlimited
ulimit -t unlimited
ulimit -v unlimited
ulimit -n 64000
ulimit -m unlimited
ulimit -u 32000
{% endif %}

{{foreverPath}}forever \
-a \
-l $LOGFILE \
--minUptime $MIN_UPTIME \
--spinSleepTime $SPIN_SLEEP_TIME \
--killSignal $KILL_SIGNAL \
{{foreverOptions|default('')}} \
--uid "{{service}}" \   <=========== added quotes ================
start {{script|default('app.js')}} {{scriptOptions|default('')}} 2>&1 >/dev/null
{% endif %}

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