I want to run the following commands from a bash script:
sudo cat << EOF>> /etc/profile
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/lib64:/usr/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.6.0_22/
export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:/opt/tomcat/bin:${PATH}
EOF
sudo source /etc/profile
But a get a following errors:
/home/ak/init-script.sh: line 40: /etc/profile: Permission denied
sudo: source: command not found
Any help about how to achieve what i want?
Antonis
You get "Permission denied" error, when trying to write to /etc/profile. This is because sudo is applied only to the first command - cat, but process writing to /etc/profile has the privileges of your normal user.
This is why this file does not get created. There is a workaround, but I don't think you need it, since if you just need to export some variables, you can do it directly from your shell:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/lib64:/usr/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.6.0_22/
export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:/opt/tomcat/bin:${PATH}
If you need to load settings from /etc/profile to your shell, you can just run source /etc/profile without sudo, it is not needed there.
source is a builtin bash command, not a program you can run with sudo. You have to use sudo on the entire script
