Can you help me with this.  My goal is to create a script that will run yamj as nobody then add a cronjob that will run that scipt.  The script will be named indexscript.sh

I created a directory called my_extra to place the script in.  Here is what I have tried

#!/bin/bash

sudo -u nobody /boot/extra/yamj-rescan.sh

and

su - nobody --shell=usr/bin/bash

/boot/extra/yamj-rescan

 

then I ran this command to establish the permissions

 

chmod a+rwx /boot/my_extra/indexscript.sh

 

 

 

Neither script worked when I tried to run it in a telnet session.  Can you please look at it and tell me why the script will not work?

 

Here is the what I am adding to my goscript:

crontab -l > /tmp/file; echo '#Run Yamj-rescan at 1am every day' >> /tmp/file; echo '00 1 * * * /boot/my_extra/indexscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1' >>/tmp/file; crontab /tmp/file; rm /tmp/file

 

Thanks in advance for you time

 

Does amyone have any input?  Since I moved to 5rc8 I found running yamj-rescan as root causes me issues, so I am looking to automate running yamj-rescan as nobody.

 

I really appreciate any help provided getting this script working.

did you try to run the sudo command directly in your telnet session?

do you see any errors?

sudo -u nobody /boot/extra/yamj-rescan.sh

should work, if the permissions of yamj-rescan.sh are correct. (the user nobody (or the group users) must have permission to read and execute it)

 

try

chmod 777 /boot/extra/yamj-rescan.sh

Yes I ran the pseudo-command from putty and it worked

The only way I can run the following command:

su - nobody --shell=usr/bin/bash

 

hit "enter

then run this command:

/boot/extra/yamj-rescan

 

yamj-rescan runs fine

 

So my script reads like this:

 

su - nobody --shell=usr/bin/bash

 

/boot/extra/yamj-rescan

 

Is my script missing anything?