[sudo-users] sudo and variable expantion: HowTo?

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, in fact many platforms have a standard way of doing
the above for all system daemons;

	redhat/fedora:
		service ntpd restart

	solaris10:
		svcadm restart network/ntpd

	many others:

		/etc/init.d/ntpd restart
	or
		/etc/init.d/ntpd stop
		/etc/init.d/ntpd start


Matt