LJ Mace wrote:
I'm trying to finish a script that will bring down/backup/zip/restart our database and schedule it using crontab. If I su to root and start the script it works fine. I've got everthing working except the down part of DB2. Everytime I issue the command I get permission denied. I was getting it on the force but I set the profile and that part works. I just can't seem to get db2stop command to work. Here is the command I have in the script: /opt/IBM/db2/V8.1/adm/db2stop What am I missing? What's the difference in su and placing something in roots crontab??
An obvious difference is that in once case you generally have a tty (terminal) and in the other you don't. Which distro are you using? If RHEL then you may have a different security context in those different circumstances. I note that RHEL /etc/init.d/* use runuser and not su. For example, see /etc/init.d/postgresql -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
