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RussellHarrower
RussellHarrower

Reputation: 6810

admin crontab won't run sudo command

sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified

Hi I am getting the above error when ever I try to get the following crontab to run.

*/5 * * * * sudo bash /home/admin/scripts/monitor.sh /dev/null 2>&1

I am using nano as the editor to edit the admin user crontab - note this is not root user.

EDITOR=nano crontab -e -u admin

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2676

Answers (1)

Andrey Sabitov
Andrey Sabitov

Reputation: 464

1) Disable requiretty in sudoers file

2) Permit script execution without password:

admin    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/admin/scripts/monitor.sh

3) I'm not sure but you don't need specify bash after sudo. Just add #! /bin/bash at the begin of the script

*/5 * * * * sudo /home/admin/scripts/monitor.sh /dev/null 2>&1

Upvotes: 3

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