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01-26-2015

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Remoting sudo commands & bypassing bashrc

What I want to do is not unique, except that our environment has a twist.

I want to ssh to a remote server and issue a sudo command to run a script. This isn't working, but you'll get the gist.

Code:

# ssh remotehost sudo -i -u oracle script.bash

The sudo to oracle is fine. The script.bash sets up the environment variables needed to run the Oracle commands and runs a very rudimentary "asmcmd lsdg" to get information.

The problem is that the Oracle user's .bashrc or .bashprofile which gets executed by the "sudo -i -u" has a shell menu that prompts the logged on user (99% of the time it's oracle) to select some variables before dumping the session to a shell prompt. Since I'm scripting the commands to source my environment then run the Oracle commands, and running it via cron, I have to be able to ignore the menu from the profile.

As root (or even myself), I can't source the env variables from Oracle and run the script (no DB perms), so that option is out.

Is there any way I can use sudo or su on the remote system and bypass or break out of the bashrc to ignore the menu prompting so I can run my script seamlessly?

Last edited by rbatte1; 01-27-2015 at 07:03 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       MonkeyTail  allows  a  user to tail multiple files on both local and remote hosts and clearly marks inactivity by putting 5 newlines in the
       output whenever a pause in output over 3 seconds is detected.

       MonkeyTail is implemented a fairly simple wrapper script around standard tail, ssh, and sudo.

OPTIONS

       -q     Quiet mode

       --quiet
	      "    "

       -n     Output the last N lines of each file before tailing (defaults to 0)

       <file>...
	      Files to tail.

	      These can specified in the following ways:

       @<groupname>
	      - expands the group (from .mtailrc) to a list of

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       <filename>
	      - tails a local file.

       +<filename>		- attempts to sudo and tail a local file (will
	      prompt for pwd if required).

       <remotehost>:<filename>
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	      host.

       +<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke sudo tail via ssh on a
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