On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Star Liu wrote: >> currently i'm the root user, but I need to execute a command as >> another user named postgres, I can do it in 2 commands, and it works >> fine. >> ----------- >> su postgres >> postgres -D ~/data > ~/log/logfile 2>&1 & >> ----------- >> but i hope I can do it in one command, so I tried this >> --------------- >> su -c "postgres -D ~/data > ~/log/logfile 2>&1 &" postgres > > What error does that give? thank you, the error says cannot find postgres command, so i change it to this: su -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/postgres -D ~/data > ~/log/logfile 2>&1 &" postgres and it works now!
>> ---------------- >> but it doesn't work. what's wrong with it? or any other command to >> realize it? thanks > > The sudo command is an alternative that comes to mind. > > - Chris Burkhardt > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- I'm a debian user and a web developer(XML+XSLT+AJAX+XHTML＋CSS+PostgreSQL+MONO C#) in City of Shanghai, China. Welcome to add my IMs! (msn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xmpp) [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage http://starliu dot 9966 dot com [It's only available when my personal machine is running, on which it's hosted.]
