Creating a shell script to be executed by cron....

[hd7106]

I have situation where I need to reboot Solaris system using the standard /etc/shutdown script. However, prior to reboot I would like to terminate some tasks and applications using the binaries provided by the application provider. These binaries will only run as a normal user logged in with a specific environment settings and will not run as root user; unledd you use "su -" to maintian the environemnt.

Since I need to execute these binaries within cron, and recognizing the fact, that /etc/shutdown can only be executed by root; I need to derive a script to maintain the user's environemnt as well be able to execute shutdown. Any thoughst or ideas will be much appreciated.

Hasmukh Daji

 

[J1mbo]

You could have the script source the user's environment files before running the binaries or possibly run the su command as a user like this:

su - USERNAME -c "command [args]"


-jim

 

[KenCunningham]

As J1mbo says, source the user environment files within the script to run the binaries - in particular, make sure the $PATH is set appropriately by defining it specifically. HTH.

 

[hd7106]

Thanks for the help.

I did test the script within the cron schedule and works great. Although, I call this shell script from root user, which makes it easier to invoke normal user's environment using &quot;su - <user> -c &quot;.....&quot; syntax.

Much appreciate it,
Hasmukh Daji