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# 1  
Old 01-19-2011
Knowing the user who is executing my script
Hi, is there any way? I thot of id but it doesnt work quite well Smilie
# 2  
Old 01-19-2011
Right now?
Code:
 
#!/usr/bin/ksh
 
zp=$( fuser script_file.sh 2>/dev/null )
 
if [ "$zp" != "" ]
then
  ps -fp "$zp"
fi

Ongoing? Just add some logging to your script:
Code:
date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S $LOGNAME $$ $0 $# args( $* )" >> ~me/my_log.txt

# 3  
Old 01-19-2011
Some commands you might find usefull:

Code:
$ whoami
$ id -un
$ echo $LOGNAME
$ echo $SUDO_USER

Note SUDO_USER is only usefull if you have/use sudo in your environment and returns the user who called sudo instead of the current userid
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