Hi ,

I am trying to stop and start a process using the below code. I have sudo access on my machine

## PID = process id
echo "$PASSWD" | sudo -S kill -9 <PID>

echo "$PASSWD" | sudo -S /opt/abc/startserver
/opt/abc/startserver: error while loading shared libraries: librts.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ sudo -i
# opt/abc/startserver
Server Started

You are running the upper code in a crontab? In any case it looks like the environment in the first example is missing LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

First code is a script file not in cron.

The former are the series of commands executed in shell one after the other (not through scripting)

The below commands are working fine
<<command 1>>
$sudo -i 
<<command 2>>
# opt/abc/startserver Server Started 

i tried 
$sudo /opt/abc/startserver    , it throws the same error

What, as the concerned user, is the output of

 sudo -l

output of sudo -l
User <xyz> may run the following commands on this host:
(ALL) ALL
(ALL) ALL

Ok its OT but, I feel a bit concerned by your security with what I see above...
Cant you get your user to have:

n12:/home/vbe $ sudo -l
User vbe may run the following commands on this host:
    (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

 .  ~root/.profile

Thanks vbe and jim

Finally the below code worked

## startserver is already included in the Current environment through /etc/profile
 echo "PASSWD" | sudo -S -E startserver

I dont want to try the below trick because this is just adhoc not a regular task.
 (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL