PowerChute 2.2.3 - Solaris 10 (SPARC): UPS On Battery, Run Command File...

[charlescva_apc]

This was originally posted on APC forums on 3/16/2010

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Hello,
I am trying to run a database shutdown script before the UPS goes on battery. The other events are working (system shutdown) but of course i want to be able to bring down the database with a script before the system does a shutdown.

The issue is, the shutdown script has commands in it like, 'sqlplus'. If the script is run as "oracle" user, it works fine. However if i log into root and type 'sqlplus' i get sqlplus: not found.

My question is, will the powerchute service run the script for On Battery event as root? if so, how do i make root able to run this shutdown script?

Thanks,
Charles

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[charlescva_apc · Accepted solution]

This was originally posted on APC forums on 3/16/2010

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think i figured it out... instead of running the script, the command

su - username -c "/path/to/script.sh"

works well from root prompt... so i will assume that powerchute will run as root and will do the same thing. Now if I can just figure out how to monitor the powerchute console session when i unplug the systems to see if its actually executing the scripts.

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