Exporting Variables from Other Profiles
 

Hi

I'm trying to put together an init script to stop and start Ingres on a few machines. The problem is that the hosts have differently engineered Ingres installations so the bin type folders are in different locations.

Ideally I would like a '1 script fits all' and the idea we were working with was calling the .profile of the ingres user which always sits in /home/ingres.

The script I have so far is as follows:

the problem is, the echo commands are showing the variables for root and not for ingres.

If I go through this step by step I get the expected results i.e. the ingres variables.

Can anyone please help?

$HOME is evaluated as the home of the current user (=root). Probably you would write ~ingres/.profile instead
Also the result of -c ". command" will be valid only inside the su - ingres shell, after returning to root you will loose that settings. Probably you only need . ~ingres/.profile without su - ingres -c

thanks for that

I had already considered running the profile without the su command but didn't want to break roots profile because PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH already exist. Is that likely to happen?

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usually the profiles (like ~ingres/.profile) will only extend PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that will not cause any problem, but if you are in doubt just check it!

The main point is that as soon as this line completes
you've exited the ingres env and are back to root.
You need to put everything you need into a script and than call it like you called the profile file.