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)
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chroot
chroot(1M)chroot(1M)NAME
chroot - change root directory for a command
SYNOPSIS
newroot command
DESCRIPTION
The command executes command relative to the newroot. The meaning of any initial slashes in path names is changed for command and any of
its children to newroot. Furthermore, the initial working directory is newroot.
Note that command suffixes that affect input or output for the command use the original root, not the new root. For example, the command:
locates file relative to the original root, not the new one.
The command variable includes both the command name and any arguments.
The new root path name is always relative to the current root. Even if a is currently in effect, the newroot argument is relative to the
current root of the running process.
This command is restricted to users with appropriate privileges.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support
Single- and multibyte character code sets are supported.
WARNINGS
command cannot be in a shell script.
Exercise extreme caution when referring to special files in the new root file system.
does not search the environment variable for the location of command, so the absolute path name of command must be given.
When using to establish a new environment, all absolute path name references to the file system are lost, rendering shared libraries inac-
cessible. If continued access to shared libraries is needed for correct operation, the shared libraries and the dynamic loader be copied
into the new root environment.
SEE ALSO chdir(2), chroot(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE chroot(1M)