Sudo in a cron job question

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> Hi,
> I've configured sudo so that I can execute checkinstall as my normal
> user in an effort to automate the updating of gnucash from CVS. As far
> as I can tell, sudo is working correctly. When I execute
> /usr/bin/sudo checkinstall -R -y --pkgname=gnucash-CVS
> --pkgversion=1.8.20030218 --provides=gnucash-CVS
> from the command line, checkinstall is run, gnucash gets installed and
> an RPM is built. It also works when the command gets executed from a script.
> But, when the script is run as a cron job, it fails waiting for a password.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> If you want to look at the script (my scripting skills are, um, basic,
> to say the least...), you can find it here:
> http://www.thewunders.org/files/gnucashUpdate

Who are you running the cronjob as?  If you're doing this via a cronjob,
why can't you just run the job as root?

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