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Old 07-16-2011
Run SAME SCRIPT as different user

Dear all,

i am doing an SVN backup script. Almost done.

My problem is :
Script should run by user : svn

There is a chance to run the script by root itself.. so i coded like following
Code:
#This script path and name                                                                                                   
if [ `dirname $0` == "." ] ; then
thisScript=`pwd`"/$0"
else
thisScript=$0
fi
echo -e "$thisScript"


if [ $USERNAME == "svn" ] ; then
    FUN_CHECKPRIVILEGES
    if [ $PRIVILEGE == "true" ] ; then
        FUN_BACKUP
    else
        FUN_LOG "!!!---------Backup cannot be done.-----------!!!"
        FUN_LOG "Please check the following :"
        FUN_LOG "1. Permission for user $USERNAME to access all $ALLDIR"
        FUN_LOG "2. Script may be running by any user other than 'svn' or 'root'"
        FUN_LOG "\nExiting ENTIRE BACKUP PROCESS."
    fi
else
    FUN_LOG "changing user to 'svn' and running the script"
    su svn -c 'sh $thisScript'
    FUN_LOG "Exiting."
    exit 1
fi
}

But su svn -c 'sh $thisScript' is not working correctly.

i tried all the following:

su svn -c 'sh $thisScript' --> Will go to bash$ prompt
su svn -c '$thisScript' --> Nothing will do
su - svn -c 'sh $thisScript' --> Nothing will do
su -c 'sh $thisScript' - svn --> Nothing will do

and

su svn -c 'echo "hi hi"' --> is working fine

Smilie

any idea ?

.
 

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SVN-ALL-FAST-EXPORT(1)					      General Commands Manual					    SVN-ALL-FAST-EXPORT(1)

NAME
svn-all-fast-export - tool to convert svn repositories into git SYNOPSIS
svn-all-fast-export [options] [Path to subversion repository] DESCRIPTION
svn-all-fast-export is a tool to convert your svn repositories to git. You will need to have a copy of your svn repository and to write some rules to specify how the conversion will be done, for instance, you can manage how the tags and branches will be managed writing the appropriate rules. You have examples in /usr/share/doc/svn-all-fast- export/samples Path to subversion repository is a backup copy of the subversion repository. Note that an svn url will not work due to the undistributed nature of svn. OPTIONS
--identity-map Provide map between svn username and email. You can provide a file mapping the old svn accounts to the authors names. This file must have a line per each svn account, you can use either the svn-all-fast-export native format: janesvnaccountname Jane Doe <jane.doe@example.com> or the git-svn format: janesvnaccountname = Jane Doe <jane.doe@example.com> --revisions-file Provide a file with revisions numbers that should be processed. This file should have one revision number per line. --rules The rules file that determines what goes where. See /usr/share/doc/svn-all-fast-export/samples --add-metadata If passed, each git commit will have svn commit info. --resume-from Start importing at svn revision number. --max-rev Stop importing at svn revision number. --dry-run Don't actually write anything. --debug-rules Print what rule is being used for each file. --commit-interval number If passed the cache will be flushed to git every number of commits. --stats After a run, print some statistics. --svn-branches Use the content of SVN when creating branches, Note: SVN tags are branches as well. -h, --help Show summary of options. -v, --version Show version of program. RETURN VALUES
This program returns 0 on success, on error something else (numbers in base 10): 10 unrecognized option or missing argument 11 no rules file specified BUGS
All matching rules need to end with a '/', else the tool will crash at some point. The only exception are the rules using the recurse- action. HOMEPAGE
http://gitorious.org/svn2git SEE ALSO
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git AUTHORS
svn-all-fast-export was written by Thiago Macieira and Thomas Zander. April 25, 2010 SVN-ALL-FAST-EXPORT(1)
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