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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash As System Script Post 302442264 by jkraw90 on Wednesday 4th of August 2010 12:17:11 AM
Old 08-04-2010
Bash As System Script

My main machine is set-up so that I configure the network details (IP etc) by command line. However I'm trying to create an bash script to run those commands upon system startup. Problem I have is that the commands require root access and I want it to be fully automatic.

Now I figure I need to add the bash script into system script so the system runs it as root but not sure how to do that? I though of maybe it adding it to a directory where other start-up scripts are run like /etc or /init.d but it can't be that simple can it?

On a side note I'm also trying to make it actually test that the connection is running before saying Network Is Up. I can do this with Ping, but how do I access the return so that it can report if the ping failed (and network is down).

The script is

Code:
#!/bin/bash
ifconfig eth0 inet 10.13.23.201
route add default gw 10.13.23.1
clear
echo "Network Is Up"

 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
bash(1) GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)
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