[sudo-users] sudo and variable expantion: HowTo?
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Thu Jun 8 14:09:03 EDT 2006
In message <20060608135635.GB26755 at evofed.localdomain>
so spake Matthew Hannigan (mlh):
> Best off writing a wrapper script, say, hupntp, with
> contents
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/ntpd.pid`
>
> then in sudoers:
>
> mortal ALL = /usr/local/bin/hupntp
Another option is to use something like pkill or killall (depending
on the OS) instead to kill a process by name instead of using a pid
file.
- todd
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