Script to run Chrome as Spot in Slacko

[belham2]

Hi all,

This is probably brain-dead simple for you guys, but it is proving a brick wall to my old brain. Courtesy of murga poster "Watchdog', he has a trick for getting the latest downloadable (from Google) Chrome to run as both "Spot" plus with "Sandboxing" fully employed.
Here's how things are structured at the moment:

1) In Slacko64-700 (6.9.9.9.)
2) have placed the latest, full Google Chrome64 in "Spot" directory
3) also placed palemoon64 in /opt/directory for use as a LIB_PATH when launching Chrome in Spot
4) in "spot" directory is also this simple script:

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# cat /root/spot/chrome.sh
#!/bin/sh
SPOT_HOME=$(awk -F: '$1=="spot" {print $6}' /etc/passwd)
cd $SPOT_HOME/Downloads
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/sda1/palemoon_64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec ~/google/chrome/google-chrome --user-data-dir="$SPOT_HOME/.config/chrome" "$@"

5) Now Chrome will launch, but only when you enter these 4 commands in a terminal

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chown -R spot /root/spot
cd /root/spot
su spot
sh chrome.sh

....then Chrome starts up right away, as previously mentioned with both as "Spot' and "Sandbox" function fully employed.


My question is this: it's a pain in the butt to have to type those 4 commands in a terminal every time you want to launch Chrome. Is there a way to put all of those 4 commands in "one script", so that when that script is clicked, it will launch--perform those 4 commands---and thus Chrome will start right up???

Thank you for help/advice/tips/etc.

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Put them in a script.
Put a " | " between the commands, bash will execute them sequentially.

[belham2]

Hello,
Put them in a script.
Put a " | " between the commands, bash will execute them sequentially.

Awwwww, goddang it, it was that simple? I should be whipped

Thank you so much, Puppyluvr!!

[belham2]

{followup}

..Hi again, puppyluvr. I tried these two ways below, but neither of them worked. How am I doing it wrong?

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#!/bin/sh
chown -R spot /root/spot | cd /root/spot | su spot | sh chrome.sh

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#!/bin/sh
chown -R spot /root/spot | 
cd /root/spot | 
su spot | 
sh chrome.sh

[fredx181]

I think adding the " | " is not right, doesn't this just work ?

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#!/bin/sh
chown -R spot /root/spot
cd /root/spot
su spot
sh chrome.sh
 

Or maybe:

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#!/bin/sh
chown -R spot /root/spot
cd /root/spot
xhost +local:spot
su spot -c ./chrome.sh
 

Sorry didn't test, not on a puppy now, so just guessing, hopefully brings you in right direction.

Fred

[amigo]

Put a " | " between the commands, bash will execute them sequentially.
This is not correct. The pipe '|' funnels the output of the program on the left side of it, to the program on the right side *as stdinput*.
Not to be confused with &&, which does what you said '|' does, or '||' which is equal to 'or' -run the left-side program, and only if it fails then run the right-side program

cat run-spot-run
#!/bin/sh
chown -R spot /root/spot
cd /root/spot
su spot
sh chrome.sh

copy run-spot-run anywhere in your path you want, even put a link to it on your pinboard. Then just clicking the icon would do the whole thing.

[belham2]

Thank you, Fred & Amigo (and puppyluvr)!

I ended up using Fred's 2nd example and Chrome fired right up.

Thank you so much all.