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 DEBIAN
consolehelper
CONSOLEHELPER(8) System Manager's Manual CONSOLEHELPER(8)NAME
consolehelper - A wrapper that helps console users run system programs
SYNOPSIS
progname [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
consolehelper is a tool that makes it easy for console users to run system programs, doing authentication via PAM (which can be set up to
trust all console users or to ask for a password at the system administrator's discretion). When possible, the authentication is done
graphically; otherwise, it is done within the text console from which consolehelper was started.
It is intended to be completely transparent. This means that the user will never run the consolehelper program directly. Instead, pro-
grams like /sbin/shutdown are paired with a link from /usr/bin/shutdown to /usr/bin/consolehelper. Then when non-root users (specifically,
users without /sbin in their path, or /sbin after /usr/bin) call the "shutdown" program, consolehelper will be invoked to authenticate the
action and then invoke /sbin/shutdown. (consolehelper itself has no priviledges; it calls the userhelper(8) program do the real work.)
consolehelper requires that a PAM configuration for every managed program exist. So to make /sbin/foo or /usr/sbin/foo managed, you need
to create a link from /usr/bin/foo to /usr/bin/consolehelper and create the file /etc/pam.d/foo, normally using the pam_console(8) PAM mod-
ule.
OPTIONS
This program has no command line options of its own; it passes all command line options on to the program it is calling.
SEE ALSO userhelper(8)AUTHOR
Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
Red Hat Software 18 March 1999 CONSOLEHELPER(8)