rc.d script

[paynerobert]

I have a startup script on Solaris 8 which is to start a daemon as a particular user. In my rc script I have:

su - gooduser -c "abinary args"

Now, gooduser has bash set in /etc/passwd as its shell. The problem I'm seeing is that Solaris won't pick up gooduser's environment. After reading the man page I'm pretty sure it's because gooduser doesn't have /bin/sh as its shell. Changing the shell for gooduser is not an option.

One solution I see is to write a bash wrapper and source gooduser's profile to pick up the environment.

Any more elegent ideas?

 

[bi]

Have you tried something like this:

su - gooduser -c ". /export/home/gooduser/.profile;abinary args"

 

[paynerobert]

Thanks for the reply. Exactly what I did, sourced the .profile after converting it to be /bin/sh compatible.

Thanks