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11-24-2008, 02:23 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 3
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Crontab sudo
I hope this is the correct place to ask this question:
OS: SUSE Linux SP2
1)I am logging in as a nonroot user namely alvin
2)I have a backup scripts that can run by alvin without any problem.
3)Inside this backup scripts, I did use sudo.
4)I have configure sudo without password.
5)I put in crontab as below:
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alvin@ambglx01:~> crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.XXXXXzzsPk installed on Mon Nov 24 14:56:37 2008)
# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)
30 14 * * * /home/alvin/idm-eDirBackup.sh
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IT cannot work, there is a message in /var/opt/mail/alvin, saying that sudo command not found:
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alvin@ambglx01:~> tail -f /var/mail/alvin
Creating Backup Files...
/home/alvin/idm-eDirBackup.sh: line 5: sudo: command not found
Backup Files Created!!!!
/home/alvin/idm-eDirBackup.sh: line 8: sudo: command not found
Tar file idm-eDirBackup24112008.tar.gz created!!!
Creating log file...
ls: /home/alvin/backup/idm-eDirBackup24112008.tar.gz: No such file or directory
Log file created.
Backup of eDirectory Completed
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Please help
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11-24-2008, 02:29 AM
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#2
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
Posts: 6,678
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Try putting the path to sudo in the script, so instead of
sudo some_command
try
/usr/bin/sudo some_command
Check the path first.
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11-24-2008, 03:38 AM
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#3
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 3
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Quote:
Originally Posted by billymayday
Try putting the path to sudo in the script, so instead of
sudo some_command
try
/usr/bin/sudo some_command
Check the path first.
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Yes it works if I do it that way. haha.
TQ very much
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11-24-2008, 03:43 AM
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#4
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
Posts: 6,678
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It's because cron doesn't inherit your path that you had the problem in the first place.
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