A simple bash scripting question.

[glennzo]

With a statement to begin.

I wrote a short script to install the gnome weather extension under Fedora 16. The last 2 commands in the script are:

PHP Code:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather woeid 2487386
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather unit fahrenheit 


These commands do not seem to be executed because the settings are not changed, but, the script doesn't complain and there are no visible errors. If I execute these commands as regular user "glenn" from the command line they seem to work and the settings are changed. This leads me to the question.

Do I need to use something like

exec gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather woeid 2487386

in the script or is there another method to execute these commands properly?

[Dangermouse]

Hi Glenn,
when running the settings are they being run as root or as user?(you need user)


(su - $(logname) -c "gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather woeid 248738")

[glennzo]

Hello Dave. The script requires sudo password since I'm doing "yum install".. So if I use your example code above those 2 commands will be executed as "glenn" ??

[Dangermouse]

Originally Posted by glennzo

Hello Dave. The script requires sudo password since I'm doing "yum install".. So if I use your example code above those 2 commands will be executed as "glenn" ??

Yep should be (without the brackets)

[glennzo]

The new code then:

PHP Code:

(su - $(logname) -c "gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather woeid 2487386")
(su - $(logname) -c "gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather unit fahrenheit") 


This switches to "glenn" and executes the code? Thank you so much Dave

[sea]

Odd enough, and dont know if this was successfull bcause of a 'bug'.
But with the previous scripts i had an autostyle gnome3 section, and some parts were just called as you first had, but for some reason it got applied. However havent used since Gnome 3.0.x...

Anyway, the script 'was ment' to be called as 'normal' (current) user, not as root.

# | Download the extension
	git clone https://github.com/simon04/gnome-shell-extension-weather.git
# | change to folder, and make installation
	cd gnome-shell-extension-weather
	./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
	make
	sudo make install
# | 
# | shell weather extension
    seaheader "Autostyle: Weather extension"
	gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather unit celsius
	gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather show-comment-in-panel false
	gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather position-in-panel center 
	gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.weather city Bülach

Originally Posted by Glennzo

Hello Dave. The script requires sudo password since I'm doing "yum install".. So if I use your example code above those 2 commands will be executed as "glenn" ??

If you're executing the sudo yum install, just the next line will (should) be executed as 'current' user again.

Only if you have reloaded the script as root, or having the code block to be run as root might cause an issue you're having. Or if you wrote an 'improper' one liner. By improper i mean, more than required is run as root.