run batch script as user tomcat who does not have any login

fachhoch@gmail.com · 05-17-2012, 10:46 AM

I want to run a batch script as tomcat user .

tomcat user was created to run tomcat.

I tried
/bin/su tomcat wget -o /opt/tomcat/current/webapps/artms.war https://s3.amazonaws.com/blah/blah/blah/somefile.

but I get /bin/su: invalid option -- 'o'

Ser Olmy · 05-17-2012, 11:04 AM

Have you tried /bin/su --help? The help text contains at least three useful bits of information:

/bin/su (unlike /usr/bin/su) does not take command arguments like that, use "-c"
/bin/su passes a command to the login shell, which, as you say, your user doesn't have
/bin/su allows you to specify a shell with the "-s" parameter

fachhoch@gmail.com · 05-17-2012, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ser Olmy

Have you tried /bin/su --help? The help text contains at least three useful bits of information:

/bin/su (unlike /usr/bin/su) does not take command arguments like that, use "-c"
/bin/su passes a command to the login shell, which, as you say, your user doesn't have
/bin/su allows you to specify a shell with the "-s" parameter

is there any way I can tell linux to run this wget -o /opt/tomcat/current/webapps/artms.war https://s3.amazonaws.com/blah/blah/blah/somefile. using tomcat user?

fachhoch@gmail.com · 05-17-2012, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fachhoch@gmail.com

is there any way I can tell linux to run this wget -o /opt/tomcat/current/webapps/artms.war https://s3.amazonaws.com/blah/blah/blah/somefile. using tomcat user?

Please help me how to run a command as a nonlogin user (I mean some other user like tomcat,apache etc) .

I want to write a startup script which uses wget to download a file and place it in tomcat /webapps folder.

the tomcat folder owner is tomcat so this new file whihc is copied I wnat tomcat to be the owner.Please help me.

chrism01 · 05-17-2012, 05:55 PM

If you want it run as part of the tomcat startup script, then hook it into there and make it owned by tomcat.