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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting question in .bash_profile Post 302220560 by hannem on Friday 1st of August 2008 05:57:44 AM
Old 08-01-2008
question in .bash_profile

We are more users using the oracle account, and people want to include theyr own files in .bash_profile. Like this:

while [ "$LOGNAME" = "oracle" -o -z "$LOGNAME" ]; do
echo -n "LOGNAME is '$LOGNAME' (no sens), who are you? " >/dev/stderr
read ln
export LOGNAME=$ln
done

This works well when logging in to the system, ssh, su - and in crontab. Now I have to run some scripts from roots crontab like this. su - oracle -c "command" 1>error.1.log 2>error.2.log

And all I get in this log is, over end over and over.
LOGNAME is '' (no sense), who are you?

Some suggestions?
Thanks in advance. Smilie
 

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bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
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