Hi, I've installed recently OpenOffice.org 3.1 on Centos 5.3. I use OOo in headless mode. I have no problem when running as root, but I'd prefer run it as non-root user (oooserver user). When I run the script in debug mode this is the output: sh -x /tmp/ooo-headless-nonroot start + . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ++ TEXTDOMAIN=initscripts ++ umask 022 ++ PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin ++ export PATH ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ COLUMNS=80 ++ '[' -z '' ']' +++ /sbin/consoletype ++ CONSOLETYPE=pty ++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n -a -z '' ']' ++ . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh +++ sourced=0 +++ for langfile in /etc/sysconfig/i18n '$HOME/.i18n' +++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ']' +++ . /etc/sysconfig/i18n ++++ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ++++ SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 +++ sourced=1 +++ for langfile in /etc/sysconfig/i18n '$HOME/.i18n' +++ '[' -f /root/.i18n ']' +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ '[' 1 = 1 ']' +++ '[' -n en_US.UTF-8 ']' +++ export LANG +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_ADDRESS +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_CTYPE +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_COLLATE +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_IDENTIFICATION +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_MEASUREMENT +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_MESSAGES +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_MONETARY +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_NAME +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_NUMERIC +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_PAPER +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_TELEPHONE +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_TIME +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LC_ALL +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LANGUAGE +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset LINGUAS +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ unset _XKB_CHARSET ++++ /sbin/consoletype +++ consoletype=pty +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ '[' -n '' ']' +++ '[' -n en_US.UTF-8 ']' +++ case $LANG in +++ '[' xterm = linux ']' +++ unset SYSFONTACM SYSFONT +++ unset sourced +++ unset langfile ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/init ']' ++ . /etc/sysconfig/init +++ BOOTUP=color +++ GRAPHICAL=yes +++ RES_COL=60 +++ MOVE_TO_COL='echo -en \033[60G' +++ SETCOLOR_SUCCESS='echo -en \033[0;32m' +++ SETCOLOR_FAILURE='echo -en \033[0;31m' +++ SETCOLOR_WARNING='echo -en \033[0;33m' +++ SETCOLOR_NORMAL='echo -en \033[0;39m' +++ LOGLEVEL=3 +++ PROMPT=yes +++ AUTOSWAP=no ++ '[' pty = serial ']' ++ '[' color '!=' verbose ']' ++ INITLOG_ARGS=-q ++ __sed_discard_ignored_files='/\(~\|\.bak\|\.orig\|\.rpmnew\|\.rpmorig\|\.rpmsave\)$/d' + ooffice=/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin + prog='OpenOffice.org Headless' + pidfile=/var/run/ooo-headless/ooo-headless.pid + lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/ooo-headless + OPTIONS='-headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.Service' + RETVAL=0 + case "$1" in + start + echo -n 'Starting OpenOffice.org Headless: ' Starting OpenOffice.org Headless: + su oooserver '-c /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.Service >/dev/null 2>&1 &' End oif Output You can see the ps output too: root 19432 0.0 0.2 4908 1228 pts/0 S+ 10:46 0:00 | \_ su oooserver -c /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.Service >/dev/null 2>&1 & 500 19433 0.0 0.2 4484 1040 ? Ss 10:46 0:00 | \_ bash -c /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.Service >/dev/null 2>&1 & 500 19434 6.4 5.0 100492 22520 ? Sl 10:46 0:00 | \_ /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -nologo -norestore -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=2002 Problem is that it fails at listening on port 2002 and it never creates pid file: ls -ld /var/run/ooo-headless/ drwxr-xr-x 2 oooserver oooserver 4096 Jul 30 15:07 /var/run/ooo-headless/ Please could you help me to root as non-root user? Thanks in advance! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -