[SOLVED] Switch to zimbra user

[dancc]

Hello, I am trying to automate my backup using my exisiting backup solution. What I use now is rdiff-backup. I have a script that looks like this

#!/bin/bash

sudo -u zimbra zmcontrol stop >> /root/logs/zmcontrol.log
rdiff-backup -v5 --print-statistics /opt root@192.168.0.206::/srv/Zimbra >> /root/logs/zimbra.log
sudo -u zimbra zmcontrol start >> /root/logs/zmcontrol.log

it doesn't work.

What I want to happen is the script (excuted as root) will execute zmcontrol stop as the user zimbra then run the backup then start zmcontrol as zimbra

would just executing the script as zimbra be ok? only /opt is being copied

thanks for any help

[dancc]

I got it working, here is what I did if anyone wants to know


zmcontrol is at /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol

so in my script instead of

sudo -u zimbra zmcontrol stop

it is

sudo -u zimbra /opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol stop

Seems to work as it should