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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos