On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Matt <matt.mailinglists@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
Can't you just run it from your own crontab and not from root's?
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
