Hi, With your suggestion the user part falls away and all the following work fine su --c "shutdown -r now" su -c " cp foo foo1" su -c "rm -ir tmp" Well if you know its easy - couldnot see this option in man page. Thanks enjoy Johan
******************* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adolfo Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake-Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] superuser single command (su -c ??????????) > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 16:20, Johan Scheepers wrote: > > Hi, > > Sometimes while being a user you need to do a command that only su can do. > > While stdying su it seems there is a way to do this. I have problems to make > > some work. > > > > su -c gedit root foo > > opens gedit in su mode not as foo but as untitled - you can save it as > > foo. > > > > su -c ./foo root > > This runs the script. > > > > su -c cp root foo foo1 > > this does not work - complains and needs more than I can provide - do not > > know what. > > > > su -c shutdown root -r now > > Does not work - complains -r wrong option. > > > > now su command construction something like this... > > su [option] [-] [user] [ARG] > > > > It would be really nice to do complex commands. > > Please what am I missing > > Thanks > > Johan > > > > May this be a good day for learning > > Try: > > su -c 'your command within quotes' > > Adolfo > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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