su - username -c command_name

[Osama88]

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

[Printaporn_1]

Hi,

For me it work (HP-UX 11.0)

Does switch to other new created user work ?

[Hartmut Lang]

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

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Check your .profile for something like

exec sh

A fork to a new level will mean no command


Steve Steel

[Kenny Chau]

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.

[Heidl Robert]

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

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Mike,

Try this,

su - user_name -c "type your command here"

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Tim Woods_2]

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