Running Script with a Switch

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Yes, the openhab user is what your script will run as.

At this point my next advice is to look at

How to solve Exec binding problems

One of the most common problems I help people with on this forum is dealing with the Exec binding. So I’m writing this post so I can reference it later. Background When openHAB is installed in the automated way (i.e. via apt-get) an openhab user is created and the service runs under that user. The openhab user has the following attributes: no shell so one cannot log in or su to this user limited rights not a member of sudoers has a home directory in /var/lib/openhab (or /var/lib/openhab2) has…

Try the various suggestions including replacing spaces with @@ and using executeCommandLine so you can see the result when the script fails.