[CentOS] Cronjob and sudo

Thu Feb 12 18:40:45 UTC 2015
Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Matt <matt.mailinglists at gmail.com> 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 {} \;
>

      What if you did not use sudo at all? Say in cron.d:

0 * * * * matt /usr/local/bin/deletecrap> /dev/null 2>&1


> 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.
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