On Thu, February 12, 2015 12:32 pm, Matt wrote:
I need to remove empty files out of a directory that are over 6 hours old so I created this script and put it in cron.hourly.
#!/bin/sh cd /var/list sudo -u matt find /var/list -mmin +360 -empty -user matt -exec rm {} ;
I want to run it as matt rather than root for just an added bit of safety. Problem is I get this.
"sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo"
Is there another way to do this? As I understand the reason for this is requiretty in sudo config. If that improves security I would rather not change that setting.
Did you try to use su instead? E.g., in my /etc/rc.local I have a bunch of stuff run on behalf of users other than root. Like:
/bin/su lmgrd -c 'export IDL_DIR=/usr/local/opt/flexlm/idl;/usr/local/opt/flexlm/idl/bin/lmgrd -c /usr/local/opt/flexlm/licenses/license.dat -l /var/log/flexlm/idl.log > /dev/null 2>&1'
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++