Try sudo echo $PATH and most probably /your/home/bin will not be included in it.
Except that your shell will evaluate $PATH before executing sudo. Instead you would need to do the somewhat iffy looking
or better still get use sudo -i and check your path.
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Well, wisecaracker, I see your point, but - IF a script does such delicate things that needs root privileges, it certainly should NOT reside in a user's $HOME/bin. And, sudo is so flexible to setup that only the eligible user can use cleanup2 in a public directory.
Agreed. So place the program in /usr/local/sbin, which on my system at least, is in root's path when using sudo. And make it executable (and readable?) only by root.
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mtailrc
mtailrc(5) User Manuals mtailrc(5)NAME
mtailrc - Configuration file for monkeytail
DESCRIPTION
A monkeytail configuration uses Apache-style syntax to declare "groups" of files to be tailed.
Best explained with an example:
<group testgroup>
prefix 'server2: '
sudo yes
<file>
filename /var/log/apache2/access.log
prefix 'server1: '
host server1.example.com
</file>
<file>
filename /var/log/apache2/access.log
host server2.example.com
sudo no
</file>
</group>
OPTIONS
All options can be either put inside a group or file block. Options inside a file block override those in the group block.
filename filename
filename defines the filename for this block.
host remote-host (optional)
host defines that this block's file is to be tailed on a remote server.
sudo yes|no|1|0
sudo is a boolean specifying whether this file should be tailed as root. This option is supported for both local and remote files
(in both cases you will potentially be prompted for your password).
prefix "string: "
prefix allows you to specify a short string that will be prepended to every line that is displayed for that given file.
FILES
~/.mtailrc - user specific monkeytail config
SEE ALSO mtail(1), tail(1)AUTHOR
Martyn Smith <martyn@dollyfish.net.nz>
mtail May 2008 mtailrc(5)