Can anyone help me on the following problem,

operating system = SunOS 5.9.

I have a bash redundancy script file.

Among other functionalities, the redundancy script has to do 'ifconfig', therefore I have to run the script in superuser previlage. which is very annoying.

Is there anyway I can run the script in normal user previlage and at the sametime achieve 'ifconfig' ?

Sample script
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#!/bin/bash

PAUSE=2
MISSED=0
MAX_MISSES=3
interface=bge0
subif=:1
netmask=255.255.0.0
broadcast=172.16.255.255
servicename=172.16.0.48


/sbin/ifconfig ${interface}${subif} plumb
/sbin/ifconfig ${interface}${subif} inet ${servicename} netmask ${netmask} broadcast ${broadcast} down

# start the processes over here

while true;do
if ! ping 172.16.0.48 1 &> /dev/null ; then
MISSED=`expr $MISSED + 1`
echo "MISSED: $MISSED"
fi

if [ $MISSED -eq $MAX_MISSES ]; then
echo "Need to do a switch over"
/sbin/ifconfig ${interface}${subif} up
grarp ${interface} ${servicename}

# 1. Stop the processes over here

sleep $PAUSE

# restart the processes over here.

MISSED=0
fi
sleep $PAUSE
done



Thanks and Regards,

Vinoth

Vinoth.ilango@gmail.com

I just answered yesterday a very close question, see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...24#post1260924
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