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

In reply to Executing Root Commands from user level by curtisb

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