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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change user in script Post 302801201 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 1st of May 2013 02:29:15 PM
Old 05-01-2013
If you call the script with a relative pathname,
it is safer to replace $0 by the abolute path to this script.
Then I forgot an exec.
Then the fi somehow went to the end of the previous line
Code:
if [ "${LOGNAME:-$USER}" = "root" ] ; then
 echo "rerunning $0 as user skysmart"
 sleep 1 # for safety
 exec su - skysmart -c "/path/to/this/script $@"
fi
# this is run as user skysmart
echo "hello I am $LOGNAME"

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IGNORE_USER_ABORT(3)							 1						      IGNORE_USER_ABORT(3)

ignore_user_abort - Set whether a client disconnect should abort script execution

SYNOPSIS
int ignore_user_abort ([string $value]) DESCRIPTION
Sets whether a client disconnect should cause a script to be aborted. When running PHP as a command line script, and the script's tty goes away without the script being terminated then the script will die the next time it tries to write anything, unless $value is set to TRUE PARAMETERS
o $value - If set, this function will set the ignore_user_abort ini setting to the given $value. If not, this function will only return the previous setting without changing it. RETURN VALUES
Returns the previous setting, as an integer. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A ignore_user_abort(3) example <?php // Ignore user aborts and allow the script // to run forever ignore_user_abort(true); set_time_limit(0); echo 'Testing connection handling in PHP'; // Run a pointless loop that sometime // hopefully will make us click away from // page or click the "Stop" button. while(1) { // Did the connection fail? if(connection_status() != CONNECTION_NORMAL) { break; } // Sleep for 10 seconds sleep(10); } // If this is reached, then the 'break' // was triggered from inside the while loop // So here we can log, or perform any other tasks // we need without actually being dependent on the // browser. ?> NOTES
PHP will not detect that the user has aborted the connection until an attempt is made to send information to the client. Simply using an echo statement does not guarantee that information is sent, see flush(3). SEE ALSO
connection_aborted(3), connection_status(3), Connection Handling for a complete description of connection handling in PHP. . PHP Documentation Group IGNORE_USER_ABORT(3)
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