Ok let me put my problem in simple words - I have a cocoa app and I want to launch a shell script which has to do some task with root privilege. How can I do it???
Regards, Cocoa.learner On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Nick Zitzmann <n...@chronosnet.com> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2010, at 11:05 PM, cocoa learner wrote: > > > And permission of this script is - > > -rwx------ 1 root wheel 536 Feb 14 10:51 /Users/test/myScript > > > > > > When I am executing the app "launchScript" is returning me TRUE but my > > script is not getting executed. I am totally lost, have no clue why it's > > happening like this. > > > > Does any body know why this script is not getting executed? Am I doing > any > > thing wrong? > > Yes and yes. You set your script's permissions to 700 root/wheel, which > means that you don't have permission to run the script. AEWP() executes > tasks with root privileges, but it doesn't execute them _as_ root. If you > need to do that, then you must use a wrapper that sets the uid to root. > Check the archives for more information. It might be easier, though, to set > the permissions to 755 instead, and put in a check for root privileges. > > And if that still doesn't work, then you might need to execute the shell as > the task, and point the shell to the script, but I'm pretty sure you just > have the permissions set incorrectly. > > Nick Zitzmann > <http://www.chronosnet.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
