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newtonian
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 Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject: gentoo and su -c [Solved] |
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Hi-
I'm trying to get su -c to work on gentoo. Do I have to do anything special to get commands to run as something other than root?
Here's what I do on a redhat box:
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su -c "find / -name *.c > /dev/null" david
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which results in:
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PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1177 david 9 0 628 628 476 D 5.3 0.1 0:00 find
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I do the same thing on my gentoo box:
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su -c "find / -iname *.o > /dev/null" david
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Here are the results:
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17312 root 25 0 4328 668 508 R 94.7 0.0 0:01.43 find
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I'm assuming that it's just a usage problem on my part. Any ideas 
Last edited by newtonian on Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:56 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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hadfield
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Could be due to different versions of su or something, I'm not really sure though. But does it work as it should if you put the username first like so?
| Quote: | | su david -c "find / -name *.c > /dev/null" |
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newtonian
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:28 pm Post subject: That did the trick |
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Wow, That did the trick, thanks!
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