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Old 05-29-2014
Running a script as root but with different users inside
Hi All, my script.sh has the below lines, and i need to run the script as root or wam. please tell me if this will work

Code:
#!/bin/bash

sudo -t wam /usr/local/wam/stopwam -r     ------- this needs run as wam user
/usr/local/web/stopweb -a                             --- this needs to run as root
/sbin/init 6                                                   --- need to run as root.

i need to schedule this job, and i need to give user mandatorily (either root or wam) while scheduling it.

Kindly help
# 2  
Old 05-29-2014
You don't have to use sudo, you can use just su - <user> -c <command>

Code:
NAME
       su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS
       su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...]

DESCRIPTION
       Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.

       -, -l, --login
              make  the  shell  a  login  shell, clears all envvars except for
              TERM, initializes HOME, SHELL, USER, LOGNAME and PATH

       -c, --command=COMMAND
              pass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c

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Old 05-29-2014
Hey thanks for replying, Please correct my understanding if i am wrong.

I have to schedule this job in autosys, for that i need to give with which user my script.sh should run.

1. As per your suggestion, I can schedule the job using root, and can give the commands inside script.sh as below
Code:
su -u wam -c /usr/local/wam/stopwam -r     ------- this needs run as wam user
/usr/local/web/stopweb -a                             --- this needs to run as root
/sbin/init 6                                                   --- need to run as root.

Kindly suggest.

Thanks in Advance !!
# 4  
Old 06-01-2014
Hey all, I used the below command but my script is unable to take " -r " as argument with the below command.
Code:
su -u wam -c /usr/local/wam/stopwam -r

But it is working for sudo -t wam /usr/local/wam/stopwam -r

Please suggest.
Last edited by Franklin52; 06-02-2014 at 03:34 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 5  
Old 06-01-2014
Please use code tags as required by forum rules!

Try quoting the entire command:
Code:
su -u wam -c "/usr/local/wam/stopwam -r"

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# 6  
Old 06-02-2014
Thanks Rudi.. will check and get back to you. ....
# 7  
Old 06-02-2014
Is this for every reboot ? (you run init 6)

If so, then it might be simpler to break this up. When you run shutdown or init, the server will most likely (you don't give us the OS name or version) run a set of stop scripts and then a set of start script (although init 6 does a full shutdown just leaving a flag to cause a boot immediately afterwards)

What are you really trying to achieve? Let us know the OS name and version and we can suggest a neater way I'm sure.




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