On 10/08/2012 06:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Sorry for the delay, I've missed the reply somehow.
>
> Well what we have now is wrong and what we had before is also wrong.
> The above is right, but may not be elegant. It is, however, somewhat
> educational.
>
From what I see, your command would attempt to use either sudo or su
even if ran as root user. Maybe some kind of "am I root?" checking
should be done there before trying to check for sudo or execute su if
sudo is not present.
> It could be collapsed to two physical lines:
>
> as_root() { if [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
> else su -c \\"$*\\"; fi }
>
> We only need to change the entity and then the $AS_ROOT to as_root in
> the 4 places needed.
>
> -- Bruce
>
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