Clarifying: On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:18 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a BACULA job that runs a SHELL script; the script does an sudo and it > appears > to be waiting for a password. Cancelling the BACULA job doesn't kill it. That is, after the cancel, bconsole status dir shows Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status ====================================================================== 407 Increme Cyrus.2007-12-03_01.05.04 has been canceled This is over an hour since I used bconsole to issue a cancel command. > > How can I kill the BACULA job? Is it safe to kill the UNIX job with the > invoked > shell script? That is, the bacula job invoked a script cryus-prep, which I see running as a Unix job. What if I kill cyrus-prep using Unix kill?
I'm running on Linux. > > I tested the sudo on the command line and it did not ask for a password; > that was in a terminal in which I did an su. In contrast, the job is > configured with > Run Before Job = "super cyrus-prep" > So I think it runs as bacula, does a "super" to root, and the offending > line in the script is trying to sudo to cyrus. I guess the environment > created by su is sufficiently "root" that sudo doesn't ask for a > password, but the one created by super is not "root" enough. > > I used super because I had problems with su and sudo asking for > passwords; I notice a lot of advice on this list to use sudo. > > Can anyone recommend how I can make this work properly in the future? > The big picture is that before the job runs I need to run as root, > mostly, but one of the items needs to be done as user cyrus. > > Thanks. > Ross Boylan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
