04-29-2005
sorry perderabo, its not that I was rejecting what kduffin said, it was really that I didn't know what the 4 meant, so I didn't know what I was doing. I did some research afterwards and I saw that the 4 was setuid, to make the script run as the owner, rather than as the daemon.
I believe this is exactly what I need, at least from everything I have read (chmod 4755). I did try it, but now what happens is that when I send an email to the account, I get an email back saying that access to the script was denied. I'm thinking that maybe setuid is disabled on our unix system, since I also read that it could be disabled because of security reasons. So my next step is to ask the sys admin if this is actually the case or not.
What I still dont understand is:
- set the group to be the default group?
- set the owner to the user I want to execute the ci/co functions (would this be the same as doing 'chown' inside the script like chuckuy said?
I am going to try the chown inside my script like chuckuy said and see if that solves my problem, because I DO know the owner of the script ahead of time, and I just need that script to run as this specific user.
I appreciate all of the help from everyone. I will be more than happy to try any other suggestions that anyone else may have for me.
Last edited by mskarica; 04-29-2005 at 01:53 AM..
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IDLE(1) General Commands Manual IDLE(1)
NAME
IDLE - An Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python
SYNTAX
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] [ file ...]
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] ( -c cmd | -r file ) [ arg ...]
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] - [ arg ...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the idle command. This manual page was written for Debian because the original program does not have a
manual page. For more information, refer to IDLE's help menu.
IDLE is an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python. IDLE is based on Tkinter, Python's bindings to the Tk widget set. Features are
100% pure Python, multi-windows with multiple undo and Python colorizing, a Python shell window subclass, a debugger. IDLE is cross-plat-
form, i.e. it works on all platforms where Tk is installed.
OPTIONS
-h Print this help message and exit.
-n Run IDLE without a subprocess (see Help/IDLE Help for details).
The following options will override the IDLE 'settings' configuration:
-e Open an edit window.
-i Open a shell window.
The following options imply -i and will open a shell:
-c cmd Run the command in a shell, or
-r file
Run script from file.
-d Enable the debugger.
-s Run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP before anything else.
-t title
Set title of shell window.
A default edit window will be bypassed when -c, -r, or - are used.
[arg]* and [file]* are passed to the command (-c) or script (-r) in sys.argv[1:].
EXAMPLES
idle Open an edit window or shell depending on IDLE's configuration.
idle foo.py foobar.py
Edit the files, also open a shell if configured to start with shell.
idle -est "Baz" foo.py
Run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP, edit foo.py, and open a shell window with the title "Baz".
idle -c "import sys; print sys.argv" "foo"
Open a shell window and run the command, passing "-c" in sys.argv[0] and "foo" in sys.argv[1].
idle -d -s -r foo.py "Hello World"
Open a shell window, run a startup script, enable the debugger, and run foo.py, passing "foo.py" in sys.argv[0] and "Hello World" in
sys.argv[1].
echo "import sys; print sys.argv" | idle - "foobar"
Open a shell window, run the script piped in, passing '' in sys.argv[0] and "foobar" in sys.argv[1].
SEE ALSO
python(1).
AUTHORS
Various.
21 September 2004 IDLE(1)