Su to another user from root doesn't work within shell script
Hello
I have a shell script that is run as root. Script rins ok until the point where it have to switch to user "mqm" to run other commands. It just hangs at the point of this line in the script
I ran the same commands at the terminal and they run fine.
Any thoughts.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-28-2015 at 08:44 PM..
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