we couldnt get it to work with the -c ... most all servers work fine without
it.

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From: Joe Pendergast [mailto:JPendergast AT WATSONPHARM DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:48 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: problem with a su script


My system uses the -c option of the su commmand

su - oracle "-c /home/oracle/scripts/backup/db_backup.sh"

Amazing what a missing flag will cause.





"Conko, Steven" <sconko AT ADT DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 04/02/2003 05:25:07 AM

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> On all of our database servers we run an archive nightly but instead of a
> regular "archive" we run a command instead:
>
> su - oracle /home/oracle/scripts/backup/db_backup.sh
>
> this script handles all the processing of the database and calls a dsmc
> archive command. on 97% of the servers it works fine. however, on just a
> few of them... that dont appear to be any different, the script
> immediately dies with a return code of 1 (no, its not permissions)....
> however tsm reports it as completed (another problem). it doesnt appear
> the script ever gets run because we use a debugging statement for the
> first line that never gets called. nothing in the environment seems to be
> a problem and on one system it just suddenly stopped working without any
> changes being made.
>
> any ideas whats going on here? we're running aix 4.3.3, tsm client 5.1.5
> and server  aix 4.3.3 tsm 4.2.2... even on the servers it works on.
>
> Steven A. Conko
> Senior Unix Systems Administrator
> ADT Security Services, Inc.
 >