[sudo-users] sudo in crontab

[Huibert.Kivits at mail.ing.nl]

Hi Tran-Huu,

We experienced something similar on Solaris systems. Not on AIX, BTW.

The error message might not be related to sudo itself. But to cron.

AFAIK, if you create a crontab for a user on a Solaris systems, a message will be sent to console when the cronjob is invoked. The user must have rights to write to console.
On a Solaris system, you can add the user to the group tty.
Alternatively, you redirect the message to a file. Something like this:

1 1 * *  0  /opt/bin/sudo  XXX.sh  >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

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Huibert Kivits

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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com [mailto:sudo-users-bounces at courtesan.com] Namens Tran-Huu.Hanh at t-systems.com
Verzonden: woensdag 18 mei 2005 18:10
Aan: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Onderwerp: [sudo-users] sudo in crontab


Hi all,

 

from the command prompt i can run a script with sudo.

 

 $ /opt/bin/sudo  XXX.sh

 

if I put this script with sudo - the same syntax -  in a crontab, it doesn't work

 

1 1 * *  0  /opt/bin/sudo  XXX.sh

 

In log I see: "you must have a tty to run sudo ... "

 

How can I fixe the problem?

 

Thanks for your help

 

T.H. Hanh

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