Mike Bristow wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:46:30AM +0000, Jim Bow wrote:
If I run the script (or just send a mail) on the command line using sudo,
then it's sent as me and not root. Same happens if I su to root first.
use 'su -'. It means you get a login shell (which sets up the enviroment
in the same way that login does).
That makes perfect sense, but doesn't seem to work. Here's the output of
my terminal session:
host% whoami
jim
host% sudo su - (tried doing "su -" also, with same results)
Password:
host# whoami
root
host# env
USER=root
HOME=/root
SHELL=/bin/csh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin
MAIL=/var/mail/root
BLOCKSIZE=K
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
TERM=screen
HOSTTYPE=FreeBSD
VENDOR=intel
OSTYPE=FreeBSD
MACHTYPE=i386
SHLVL=1
PWD=/root
LOGNAME=root
GROUP=wheel
HOST=host.example.com
EDITOR=vi
PAGER=more
host# cat /etc/motd | mail -s "hello" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This results in the mail from: header of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've
tried this on two different hosts with the same result.
The actual thing Im trying to do is to email something from a script
that runs as root from devd, but I run into the same problem of the
email arriving from somebody other than root, hence trying this manually
on the command line.
There is definitely something that I am overlooking, but what is it? I'm
extremely curious to work-out why I'm seeing such behavior as its
defeating all my expectations so far.
Thanks for reading.
JimBow
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