i.e. whatever way you shut down the server as root.
Call it turnoff.sh and put it in /sbin/ . Then make sure it's owned by the user root and the group wheel(or whatever other group you want that's a group of people you want to be able to turn off the machine).
Now give it these permissions:
As in, only it's owner and it's group can read or execute it, and it has the setuid bit.
That way, people who run the file will run it with root permissions. Yes, it has to be carefully controlled. Setuid is considered dangerous.
Technically, you could do the exact same things to the file itself, but I think it's better to make it a script that won't be replaced every time you upgrade these things.
I am running JDictd (http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/Java/JDictd/) from tcsh in Terminal on Mac OS X (:=Darwin=FreeBSD/Mach).
I am trying to get it to exit cleanly silently upon Mac OS X system shutdown.
My idea was that if there was a logout script in FreeBSD (basically a script... (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
I want to execute few of my bash script, so that whenever someone calls shutdown now -r command, I want my script to execute first before shutting down.
Any help please?????
I've just started playing with the unix system, so far its been brilliant.... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I am on Alpha Server with HP Tru64 system.
I wish to setup shutdown to automatically and cleanly shutdown informix during the shutting down of the system.
Ie. I was trying to use rc0.d to do this but failed.
Has anyone tried doing this before? I already have the script and linked it
to... (0 Replies)
I have Oracle 9i R2 on AIX 5.2. My Database is running in shared server mode (MTS).
Sometimes when I shutdown the database it shutsdown cleanly in 4-5 mints and sometimes it takes good 15-20 minutes and then I get some ora-600 errors and only way to shutdown is by opening another session and... (7 Replies)
Im writing a script to read a file called shutdown.cf and shut down any scripts that are listed there.
I have came up with the following based on things I saw in similar programs but it doesn not work:
Has anybody any idea what I may be doing wrong?
Cheers
Paul (4 Replies)
I am going to create shutdown database script. We have dabase shutdown script.
But i need take dabase which online and make it down.
I got user id which needs to dabase to down
ID=`ps -ef | grep -i pmon | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` (
got orace side
DB=`ps -ef | grep -i pmon |... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I'm writing a script to stop & start oracle:
su - oracle -c "sqlplus / as sysdba" -c "shutdown immediate">> ${log} 2>&1
The {log} refers to the log file. The part in bold gives error:
/usr/sbin/shutdown: Only root can run /usr/sbin/shutdown
Pls suggest how to correct this.
... (5 Replies)
My staff seem to have a habit of leaving thier PCs on over night so I need to write a short script to shutdown any XP clients logged into the local samba domain that I can run as a cron job at a set time.
I can list the connected clients and their IP addresses with:
$ smbstatus -b
Samba... (6 Replies)
Hello folks.
I will start out by saying as far as unix/linux scripting goes I know less about it than i do about giving birth (I'm a guy hehe). I am looking to make a shutdown script that will either shut down the system or reboot it using one of the shutdown run methods IE init 2 - 5 or a base... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
dop
dop(8) System Manager's Manual dop(8)NAME
dop - Allows a user to execute a privileged program without knowing the root password. The dop command also modifies the action database.
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/dop [-n | -N] [ui:] action [args]
/usr/sbin/dop -a priv[,priv]... action [ui:]pathspec[,[ui:]pathspec]...
/usr/sbin/dop -a priv[,priv]... [ui:]pathspec
/usr/sbin/dop -d action
/usr/sbin/dop [-w | -W]
OPTIONS
Invokes a prompt asking the user if they want to run the command as a user or as root. The root password is required to run as root.
Attempts to run the action with the user privileges. Adds new actions to the dop database. Deletes an existing action from the dop data-
base. Writes a binary image without changing the source. Updates the actionlist from the dop action file and then executes the -w option,
which writes the binary image.
OPERANDS
Name of privileged program to invoke Arguments to pass to the application guarded by the privilege. Comma separated privilege list (see
sysman dopconfig) The fully qualified path name and arguments for the associated action.
When specified by a comma separated pathlist and arguments for multiple user interface domains (ui:), the first ui: argument speci-
fied is used as the default. If no action is specified, then the path base name is used. A run-time argument replaces the first
occurrence of asterisk as a word (for example *) in a string, or else they are ignored. Path arguments should be quoted per the cur-
rent shell. Optional. A user interface domain, typically one of X11, suit, java, menu, cui, or cli.
DESCRIPTION
The dop (Division of Privileges) command can execute an action after proper authentication from the privilege database file. For more
information, see the Security guide.
RESTRICTIONS
You must have root privileges to modify the privileges database.
EXAMPLES
The following example will add an action to the AccountManagement privilege. dop -a AccountManagement adduser_script /usr/sbin/adduser
The following example runs the action adduser_script for the AccountManagement privilege. dop adduser_script
The following example deletes the adduser_script action from the action database. dop -d adduser_script
FILES
Executable file. Executable file for adding or deleting permissions for users and or groups. dop database.
SEE ALSO
Commands: sysman(8)dop(8)