Hi jlliagre,
Yes. You are correct. To get what I was describing in post #2, you would need to use:

Code:

sudo sh -c "exec >> $logFile 2>&1"

We are sorry that you are not interested in understanding why what you have asked cannot be done. That doesn't alter the fact that IT CANNOT BE DONE. Either you have permission to open the file to which you want to redirect output for writing without extended privileges, or you run the entire script with extended privileges. Redirecting output to a file in a sudo command will not grant other parts of that script that are not being run with extended privileges the ability to write to a file that it can't open for writing.

You could use sudo in your script to make the log file writeable by everyone using chmod. You could use sudo to run chown or chgrp to change the file's owner and/or group so you can write to it. You could use sudo to set an ACL allowing your user-ID or group-ID write access (if your system supports ACLs). Or, as I suggested in post #2, you could elevate the privileges of your entire script by running it with sudo. But, you cannot redirect output to a file that you don't have permission to write to in a sudo command to make that file writeable by the remainder of that script.