Ok, I have a question. I want to execute a script, which is currently in shell scripting (sh), that does an su to root. Where you have to enter the password. Then I want to execute the commands as root then exit back to user level.

What I have written is this:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter password when prompted";
su -

cd /www/apache/bin
./apachectl start
exit
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Now I know that there is a better way to do this through perl. Does anyone have any clues on where I should start looking. My biggest problem is switching from one user to root, excuteing the commands, and then exiting.

Please Help!

Thanks,

curtisb