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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Call function as different user within the script Post 302942770 by MadeInGermany on Friday 1st of May 2015 08:35:08 AM
Old 05-01-2015
functions must be defined at the start of every new shell. This can be achievd in ksh by ENV variable pointing to an include file that contains the function.
The perhaps better alternative is
Code:
<function_name> ( ) {
su - <user> -c '
command1
command2
'
}


Last edited by MadeInGermany; 05-01-2015 at 09:41 AM..
 

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suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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