01-19-2007
control over shell script
Hi..
I have a perl program that uses "system" to execute a shell script called startengine. The script "startengine" itself calls a lot of other smaller scripts to setup the engine etc. It finally has to execute ./engine which is another shell script which is long and takes a long time to complete processing.
The "startengine" script looks like this
#!/bin/bash
echo In shell script............
/usr/agjy/bin/cleartool setview $1 <<END
cd /vobs/eng/work
. ./setup host-dbg gw
cd \$ENG_TARGET_ROOT/home/bin
pwd
/home/agjy/bin/stopAll
/home/agjy/bin/cleanup
./engine 2>&1 |tee $2
My problem is that the system call returns back to perl script without waiting for ./engine to finish processing..
I have tried sleep in the perl script which works only sometimes depending on machine speed. Another problem is that ./engine is a waiting process- ie if it runs correctly it should say "waiting for connection.. " and wait for input. the output of ./engine is written into the logfile ($2). The perl script then parses that
logfile looking for the "waiting for connection" string and proceeds to send input to the engine or shut it down depending on if string was matched or not.
I need something that will make sure ./engine is completely processed before control returns to perl script..
I hope i have made the problem clear and would really appreciate any help with this..
Thanks,
JLJ
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NAME
setuid - run a command with a different uid.
SYNOPSIS
setuid username|uid command [ args ]
DESCRIPTION
Setuid changes user id, then executes the specified command. Unlike some versions of su(1), this program doesn't ever ask for a password
when executed with effective uid=root. This program doesn't change the environment; it only changes the uid and then uses execvp() to find
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execute some commands using the uid of the original user, instead of root. This allows unsafe commands (such as editors and pagers) to be
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super command that simply does:
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cp temp_file protected_file
(Note: don't use this example directly. If the temp_file can somehow be replaced by another user, as might be the case if it's kept in a
temporary directory, there will be a race condition in the time between editing the temporary file and copying it back to the protected
file.)
AUTHOR
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local SETUID(1)