Question

I am trying to execute shell command through my code for adding entry in Iptables. The following is my piece of code

private void createShellCommand(String uidValue_param, String interface_param) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    StringBuilder cmdScript=new StringBuilder();
    script.append("iptables -A OUTPUT " + interface_param + "-m owner --uid-owner " + uidValue_param + "-j REJECT");
    writeIptables(cmdScript);

}


private void writeIptables(StringBuilder scriptfile) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    String cmd=scriptfile.toString();
    if(RootTools.isRootAvailable())
    {
        Process exec;
        try {
            exec = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"su","-c"});
            final OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(exec.getOutputStream());
            out.write(cmd);

            // Terminating the "su" session
            out.write("exit\n");
            out.flush();    
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
            Log.e("IPtables updation failed", "Iptable write failed"+e);
        }

    }
    else
    {
        Log.e("Root Access denied", "Access Denied");
    }
}

Here there are two methods i.e, createshellCommand() for building the shell command and writeIptables() for updating the iptables. But whenever I run the program logcat is displaying the following warning

“W 19913 su request rejected (0->0 /system/bin/sh)”

But I can manually add the entry through command prompt and its adding to the iptables but by using the above code its not updating. My phone is rooted and I am using android 2.3.4 with linux kernel 2.6.29. And I am using external library “Roottools” for checking the root access.

Please help me to rectify the error.

Answer 1

This Works:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    execute_reboot();

}
void execute_reboot()
{
    Process reboot;
    try {
        reboot=Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su");
          DataOutputStream os = 
              new DataOutputStream(reboot.getOutputStream());
            os.writeBytes("reboot\n");
            os.flush();

              os.writeBytes("exit\n");
              os.flush();

            reboot.waitFor();

    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

This Code Works fine. There are couple of small mistakes in your program. Try the one i pasted. Its working charm. All the best. I kept it as simple as possible so that it is easy to understand. You can still use arrays and other stuff to fancy your coding.

And yaa the same one also works for chmod command where you need to pass more than one argument.

For this Just replace

“os.writeBytes(“reboot\n”);”

with

“chmod 777 /dev/video0\n”(or any other system file).

Thanks. LEt me know if there is something tat i can do.