Question

I have a shell script that runs as root. I want the script to switch to oracle user, run sqlplus and run some .sql files.
I am trying to followung :

su - oracle << -EOF1  2>&1
        sqlplus $user/$password << -EOF2
                @oracle.sql;
                @quartz.sql;
        EOF2
EOF1

first of all i get stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device what does it mean ?

second, can someone explain to me how the redirect (should) work in this case ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Use:

if [ "$(id -un)" -eq "root" ]; then
    exec su - oracle -c $0
fi

sqlplus <<EOF
blablabla
EOF

If your script potentially takes arguments, the solution will differ.

What this does it checking whether the user running is currently root. If so, it re-executes the script ($0) as user oracle instead.

But BTW, why does the script run as root in the first place?