command line work script doesn't

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello,

I'm stuck and confused as to why when I execute things form the command line it works but when in a script it doesn't.

My script:

### creating a lock on the console
touch /var/run/console.lock
chmod 600 /var/run/console.lock
echo "$User" >> /var/run/console.lock
touch /var/run/console/larry
chmod 600 /var/run/console/larry
echo "1" >>/var/run/console/larry
rm -f /tmp/.X0-lock

  \#\#\# stopping the gnome-login manager
  for pid in \`ps -ae|grep gdm|awk '\{print $1\}'|sort -r\`
  do
      kill -9 $pid
  done
  rm -f /tmp/.X0-lock

  \#\#\# getting the Gnome Desktop Manager      
  kill -9 \`ps -aef|grep gdm|grep X|awk '\{print $2\}'\`
  
  su - larry  -c 'exec /bin/sh' <<EOF

   xauth list|grep \`hostname\` >/dev/null
   if [ $? -ne 0 ]
   then
      xauth generate :0 .
   fi

  \#\#\#\# start the default desktop
  /usr/bin/X11/startx& >/dev/null 2>&1

EOF

It does not work but if I rlogin form another machine and run the scipt on the command line (execute each line at the prompt) it works. This is REDHAT 7.2

Thanks

2

Do you get any specific errors? Does any part of the script appear to actually execute?

3

oombra,

Every thing seems to execute with the except when I execut the startx command. As root on the command line things work fine but as root executing the script it doesn't work. I get is:

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.