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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting command line work script doesn't Post 39677 by larry on Wednesday 27th of August 2003 01:45:10 PM
Old 08-27-2003
command line work script doesn't
Hello,

I'm stuck and confused as to why when I execute things form the command line it works but when in a script it doesn't.

My script:

### creating a lock on the console
touch /var/run/console.lock
chmod 600 /var/run/console.lock
echo "$User" >> /var/run/console.lock
touch /var/run/console/larry
chmod 600 /var/run/console/larry
echo "1" >>/var/run/console/larry
rm -f /tmp/.X0-lock


### stopping the gnome-login manager
for pid in `ps -ae|grep gdm|awk '{print $1}'|sort -r`
do
kill -9 $pid
done
rm -f /tmp/.X0-lock

### getting the Gnome Desktop Manager
kill -9 `ps -aef|grep gdm|grep X|awk '{print $2}'`

su - larry -c 'exec /bin/sh' <<EOF

xauth list|grep `hostname` >/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
xauth generate :0 .
fi

#### start the default desktop
/usr/bin/X11/startx& >/dev/null 2>&1

EOF

It does not work but if I rlogin form another machine and run the scipt on the command line (execute each line at the prompt) it works. This is REDHAT 7.2

Thanks
 

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uudemon.cleanu

uudemon(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							uudemon(4)

NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
       directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons

SYNOPSIS

       These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
	  /usr/lib/uucp

DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

       This  script  reports  status  to  the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
       root.  This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
       mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1.  This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background.  This
       script  polls  the  systems  listed  in	the  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
       script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script.

FILES

       Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files.  Contains the uucp file.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1)

       Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off

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