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Old 04-07-2004, 03:52 AM   #1
rammya
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running scripts as changed user


Hi,
I am trying to write a script which will check all dependencies and do a silent Oracle install...

The program will be called by "root". This is part of the program:

echo "Setting Environment variables... "

./envvar.sh ----> should be performed as "root"

echo "Starting Oracle Installation..."

su - oracle ---> the scripts after this should be performed as oracle user

echo "Prerequisites checking..."

./check.sh

/disc1/runInstaller

Basically the problem I am facing is the "check.sh" script is not getting called at all. Only when I exit from the oracle user, the check.sh and anything after that is getting called by the root.
 
Old 04-07-2004, 06:10 AM   #2
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Welcome to LQ.

The oracle user isn't running the script. When you su to the oracle user you basically start a new shell as that user, and your original bash (as run by root) will wait until this shell exits to continue.

You may want to consider using expect instead of bash for the whole script, or at least for parts of it. Expect comes with a script that automates generating expect-scripts, very nifty indeed.


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Old 04-07-2004, 11:42 PM   #3
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hw-tph nailed it, as far as what's happening. I haven't used expect, tho I'd like to explore it some time.

Another option is to do something like this:

su - oracle -c '/path/to/check.sh && /path/to/disc1/runInstaller', which would execute runInstaller if check.sh evaluates to true. You'd have to check what exit code it generates.
 
  


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