Sudo in a Shell

21 Aug 2014

While managing servers, it’s necessary to use the proper account to manipulate the assets - and here’s the example for updating assets on edX:

#!/bin/bash

# update theme svn
cd /edx/app/edxapp/themes/default
sudo -H -u edxapp svn update

# update lms assets
cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
sudo -u edxapp LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SKIP_WS_MIGRATIONS="1" GEM_PATH="/edx/app/edxapp/.gem" NO_PREREQ_INSTALL="1" PATH="/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/bin:/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/bin:/edx/app/edxapp/.rbenv/bin:/edx/app/edxapp/.rbenv/shims:/edx/app/edxapp/.gem/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" GEM_HOME="/edx/app/edxapp/.gem" RBENV_ROOT="/edx/app/edxapp/.rbenv" /edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/bin/paver update_assets lms --settings=aws
cd ~

# reboot service
sudo /edx/bin/supervisorctl -c /edx/etc/supervisord.conf restart edxapp: