su command - can you execute a function

[solvetek]

The su command changes user credentials to those of the root user or
to the user specified by the Name parameter, and then initiates a new
session.

su - oratest -c "command text"

is it possible for the "command text" to be an inline function instead
of a command or script? Here is my code. The error I get is "ksh:
file_remove: not found."


#!/bin/ksh
##sample code
function file_remove
{
cd $1
find . -name \*.trc -mtime +$2 -exec rm {} \;
}
su - oratest "-c file_remove $ORACLE_HOME/admin/bdump 60"

 

[lfoata]

No,
all you have to do is call a script that will have that function in it.

 

[johnpsanz]

Solvetek,
The cause may be that $ORACLE_HOME is not parsing properly. You might want to experiment a bit by doing an "echo $ORACLE_HOME" within your script to see what is coming out of $ORACLE_HOME. You may have to "play" with $ORACLE_HOME by using curly brackets ({}) around it (${ORACLE_HOME}), or setting $ORACLE_HOME explicitly within your script, or something else.

Good luck!