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From: lora on 8 Feb 2010 16:35
Hello all,

I've got the script below that I've placed in /etc/init.d and the
appropriate soft link in the rc.d 5 directory.

These scripts run as root after I do init 6.

When this runs after I reboot the linux box, it's able to execute the
part that dumps the contents of the environment variable $P4 to the
snmTest file.

However, it's not able to launch the myshell process.

When the same script is run as root via the command line, it works
fine.

The same script runs fine when I do:
sudo ./snmsrv

What could be wrong?

Thanks



#!/bin/bash
echo RSHServer

if [ `id -u` -eq 0 ]; then

echo "running as root"
if ps aux | grep '[/]StartMenu/snmsrv.tcl'
then
echo "RSH Server already running...will not restart"
else
echo "Will restart RSH server..."
su testuser -c ". ~testuser/.profile ; myshell & "
su testuser -c ". ~testuser/.profile ; echo \$P4 >>
~testuser/snm
Test ; myshell -cmd \"source \$P4/myscript.tcl \" & "

fi

else
echo "Running in user mode. Skipping"

fi

From: J.O. Aho on 8 Feb 2010 18:18
lora wrote:

> I've got the script below that I've placed in /etc/init.d and the
> appropriate soft link in the rc.d 5 directory.

You should make a proper init script, which do support
start/stop/restart/status, otherwise you can just add what you need to
rc.local, which IMHO is a far better place than in a script placed in an init
directory.


> When this runs after I reboot the linux box, it's able to execute the
> part that dumps the contents of the environment variable $P4 to the
> snmTest file.
>
> However, it's not able to launch the myshell process.

Is this a script/binary or an alias? An alias may not work that well.



> su testuser -c ". ~testuser/.profile ; myshell & "

do:

su testuser - -c "myshell &"

this way you get the testuser's environment variables at once instead of doing
that each time you run the command.



--

//Aho
From: Cat22 on 9 Feb 2010 03:11
lora wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've got the script below that I've placed in /etc/init.d and the
> appropriate soft link in the rc.d 5 directory.
>
> These scripts run as root after I do init 6.
>
> When this runs after I reboot the linux box, it's able to execute the
> part that dumps the contents of the environment variable $P4 to the
> snmTest file.
>
> However, it's not able to launch the myshell process.
>
> When the same script is run as root via the command line, it works
> fine.
>
> The same script runs fine when I do:
> sudo ./snmsrv
>
> What could be wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> echo RSHServer
>
> if [ `id -u` -eq 0 ]; then
>
> echo "running as root"
> if ps aux | grep '[/]StartMenu/snmsrv.tcl'
> then
> echo "RSH Server already running...will not restart"
> else
> echo "Will restart RSH server..."
> su testuser -c ". ~testuser/.profile ; myshell & "
> su testuser -c ". ~testuser/.profile ; echo \$P4 >>
> ~testuser/snm
> Test ; myshell -cmd \"source \$P4/myscript.tcl \" & "
>
> fi
>
> else
> echo "Running in user mode. Skipping"
>
> fi
>
I would add the full path to myshell and retry. do you see the
echostatements output? if not, echo stuff to a file so you can
later examine it to see what it did
Cat22
From: Cat22 on 9 Feb 2010 20:52
I found your exact same post in comp.os.linux.development.apps
please dont multi-post - crosspost instead
thanks
Cat22
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