All,
I want to run a non-root script as the root user with non-root environment variables with crontab. The non-root user would have environment variables for database access such as Oracle or Sybase. The root user does not have the Oracle or Sybase enviroment variables. I thought you could do... (2 Replies)
I'm writing an application (Progress language) that needs to:
1) load the contents of a cron table into the Progress application;
2) display this information in a human manner and allow a select group of people to update it (these people are logged in as themselves, not as root);
3) save... (3 Replies)
Dear All
I am running into a situation where I am running a script as another user lets say oracle using su command as below, and the script fails because the .profile of oracle is not executed so the environment variables are not set.
cat /etc/passwd | grep oracle... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a situation where I have a shell script that I need to run remotely on multiple *nix machines via SSH. Unfortunately, some of the commands in it require root access. I know that best practices for ssh entail configuring it so that the root account cannot log in, you need to... (4 Replies)
1) Environment:Red Hat Linux, bash shell
Script to be run owned by user :myUser
Home environment of myUser: pathto/home
2) ESP agent with root access will run
JobXXX.sh
su - myUser -c "/pathto/home/bin/script.sh"
where script.sh has some echo statements and an exit statement in the end... (4 Replies)
hi All,
we have a script to remove the files from particular path,when we tryingto run manually the script went to success and removed the files but the same script which is running by other team it got failed and giving the error "2 (RC)2 "..what is the cause of the failure..and we passing the... (2 Replies)
So I have a script that runs as a non-root user, lets say the username is 'xymon' .
This script needs to log on to a remote system as a non-root user also and call up a bash script that runs another bash script as root.
in short: user xymon on system A needs to run a file as root user and have... (2 Replies)
Hi All, my script.sh has the below lines, and i need to run the script as root or wam. please tell me if this will work
#!/bin/bash
sudo -t wam /usr/local/wam/stopwam -r ------- this needs run as wam user
/usr/local/web/stopweb -a --- this needs to run as... (18 Replies)
hi all,
i think i have got the solution for this but want to run it past you guys first
when i run a script sometimes its necassary to sudo to root so it can create users, chmod etc etc, the normal way for me doing this is just to simply run the script as root
but i have created a user... (11 Replies)