Hi ,

I have a shell script to perform some actions on sun solaris box . This script normally requires to be run as a different user. so, whenever i have to run this script, i need to sudo in as that user , enter the password and execute it. Now,I have to setup a cronjob to execute the script every 15 mins .I have provded 777 permissions for that script .

But, that is not working inside the cronjob. I think the sudo is creating problems. Iam planning to create another script to call the original script .Is there a way to provide the password and the user id that i need to sudo in to run the script while running from a cronjob? Please advise how to handle this.

Thanks &Regards,
csg_user

Sudo gives you the option to allow a user to run commands without a password (ie. not requiring confirmation).

The alternative is to put the actions in root's crontab and use "su - user -c command".

*Never* do this, especially when using cron. It allows anyone to alter the script to perform tasks as that user.

or put the script in that user's crontab.

Hi Prowla,
Thanks for your reply .

My cron will have :
0,15,30,45 * * * * /opt/myfolder/myscriptname. I will use the same under root's cron .But,Where should i use the "su - user -c command". Please let me know.

Hi Porter,

Thanks. I tried running the script under that user's cron . But, it is not working . Am i missing something here?

Thanks.

I don't know, I don't know what your script does or how you've set it up, but 99% of problems with crontab are due to environment variables not being initialised.