bash

klavuzkarga · 12-16-2007, 10:24 PM

in my program i must find size of user's home directories. (including their subdirectories)

my friend told me that he used "size=du -cs $username" for this. But it doesn't work for me. what should i do?

*my program finds these users in my system;
user userid group id
root 0 0
bin 1 1
daemon 2 2
adm 3 4
lp 4 7
sync 5 0
shutdown 6 0
halt 7 0
mail 8 12
news 9 13
uucp 10 14
operator 11 0
games 12 100
gopher 13 30
ftp 14 50
nobody 99 99
rpm 37 37
dbus 81 81
avahi 70 70
rpc 32 32
mailnull 47 47
smmsp 51 51
nscd 28 28
vcsa 69 69
haldaemon 68 68
rpcuser 29 29
nfsnobody 65534 65534
sshd 74 74
netdump 34 34
pcap 77 77
xfs 43 43
beaglidx 58 58
ntp 38 38
apache 48 48
hsqldb 96 96
gdm 42 42
cumhur 500 500

*if i use "size=du -cs $username"; when my pc start running the program and gets to user "shutdown 6 0", it closes my computer :S

shadowsnipes · 12-16-2007, 10:43 PM

why would you search for home directories for all of those users. Most of them don't have home directories as they are designed for daemons and whatnot. All users with home directories (other than root) should be under /home so you should just write the script to analyze those directories (probably skip ftp directory, etc if it is in there).

klavuzkarga · 12-16-2007, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

why would you search for home directories for all of those users. Most of them don't have home directories as they are designed for daemons and whatnot. All users with home directories (other than root) should be under /home so you should just write the script to analyze those directories (probably skip ftp directory, etc if it is in there).

because i have to use getpwent() function for getting the users.
and it gets all this users..?

Uncle_Theodore · 12-17-2007, 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by klavuzkarga

because i have to use getpwent() function for getting the users.
and it gets all this users..?

Are you writing in C? Here's a snippet of code letting you get the "real" users only, the ones that have a home directory under /home

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <pwd.h>

int main()
{
  struct passwd pass, *ppointer;

  printf("Real users:\n\n");

  while(ppointer = getpwent())
    {
      pass = *ppointer;
      if(strstr(pass.pw_dir,"home"))
	printf("%s residing in %s\n", pass.pw_name, pass.pw_dir);
    }

  printf("\n");

  return 0;
}

shadowsnipes · 12-17-2007, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by klavuzkarga

because i have to use getpwent() function for getting the users.
and it gets all this users..?

Why do you have to use this function? If all the users (other than root) have their home directories under /home then all you have to do is du those directories. You don't need to bother using some other method to generate a list of users. You can get all the users names you are interested in (ones with home directories) by simply listing the directories in /home.

Am I misunderstanding what you are trying to accomplish?

klavuzkarga · 12-17-2007, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

Why do you have to use this function? If all the users (other than root) have their home directories under /home then all you have to do is du those directories. You don't need to bother using some other method to generate a list of users. You can get all the users names you are interested in (ones with home directories) by simply listing the directories in /home.

Am I misunderstanding what you are trying to accomplish?

it's an experiment for my school and there should be 2 c programs that will be called from bash script. one of these c programs use getpwnam other one uses getpwent. our teacher wants those :/ i cant decide

anyway thanks

klavuzkarga · 12-17-2007, 03:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncle_Theodore

Are you writing in C? Here's a snippet of code letting you get the "real" users only, the ones that have a home directory under /home

thanks

so you say, if there is "home" word in the user's current directory, then he is a valid user.

nice idea. i'll try that

but as i said in older message; i think other users must be in my user list. :/

thanks

shadowsnipes · 12-17-2007, 03:59 AM

I figured it must be for academic purposes because writing a C program to do that is overkill. It would be easiest just to write a short script.

klavuzkarga · 12-17-2007, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

I figured it must be for academic purposes because writing a C program to do that is overkill. It would be easiest just to write a short script.

yes it is

and yes, it is an overkill

most of our experiments are like that

jschiwal · 12-17-2007, 05:58 AM

You might want to read section 29.13 in the libc manual. It covers the password related functions.