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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Testing privileges -lock lockfile /var/lock/subsys/..- Permission denied Post 302558189 by Dedalus on Friday 23rd of September 2011 04:22:33 AM
Old 09-23-2011
Hi,

thx for reply.
This script is really basic here there's the section I was talking about:

Code:
RC=0
for command in ${forbidden_command_array[@]}; do
   $command
   RC1=$(($?-EXP_RET_CODE)) 

   let "RC=(($RC || $RC1))"
done

so at the end if RC is equal to zero means that all return codes were equal to the expected ones.
One pratical example that doesn't work is the command:
Quote:
service syslog restart
if an unauthorized user try to execute that command I got back the message:
Quote:
Shutting down kernel logger: /etc/init.d/functions: line 141: /var/run/klogd.pid: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/var/run/klogd.pid': Permission denied [FAILED]

Shutting down system logger: /etc/init.d/functions: line 141: /var/run/syslogd.pid: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/var/run/syslogd.pid': Permission denied[FAILED]

rm: cannot remove `/var/lock/subsys/syslog': Permission denied
Starting system logger: /etc/init.d/functions: line 141: /var/run/syslogd.pid: Permission denied
And the script stop its execution. To get the prompt back I have to type Ctrl-C.
The problem for me is that I would like simply to get back the return code to comprare with the expected one.

Any idea?
thx
 

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