topic Re: su - username -c command_name in Operating System - HP-UX

su - username -c command_name

Osama88 — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 06:41:44 GMT

Hi all,

I am running HP-UX 11 and on my machine the above does not work.

This is what I did
su - oracle -c dbstart and su - oracle -c ls

All that the above did was to switch-user to oracle. The command were never executed.
Please help

Re: su - username -c command_name

Printaporn_1 — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:10:14 GMT

Hi,

For me it work (HP-UX 11.0)

Does switch to other new created user work ?

Re: su - username -c command_name

Hartmut Lang — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:20:30 GMT

Check which shell is used for your user "oracle".
Check if this shell can be called with "-c command".
Check if there are any errors during starting up the shell-environment for your user "oracle".
May be you need to check "man security".

Hardy

Re: su - username -c command_name

Steve Steel — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:22:21 GMT

Hi

Check your .profile for something like

exec sh

A fork to a new level will mean no command

Steve Steel

Re: su - username -c command_name

Kenny Chau — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:51:49 GMT

Hi Mike,

First of all, which account you use to run this command? root? or superusers? If not, maybe you can not su to other accounts without password.
Second, what error messages you've got while running this command? Please post the error messages so that we can trace your problem.

Regards,
Kenny.

Re: su - username -c command_name

Heidl Robert — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:38:32 GMT

Hi Mike,
try "su oracel -c ls" (without minus).
It doesn't read the .profile.
Hope it helps.
Robert

Re: su - username -c command_name

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 13:41:34 GMT

Hi Mike,

Try this,

su - user_name -c "type your command here"

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: su - username -c command_name

Tim Woods_2 — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:02:23 GMT

Mike,

I'm doing something similar right now. You will probably have to do as Robert suggested and use

su oracle instead of su - oracle

so it doesn't read the profile. If it still gives you problems, create a script with the oracle user's environment variables in it with the dbstart command after, and then run this from the command line. Something like

su oracle -c myscript.sh

Let us know how it works.

Tim