Running cron under sudo

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Brian McKee wrote:
>
>>>> Try sudo su -  and then crontab -e
>>
>>> Thank you for taking the time to reply.  I'm assuming you meant "sudo
>>> -i" as your first suggestion.
>>
>> Nope
>>   sudo su -
>> will log you in as root after you provide YOUR password.
>
> No, he's right.  The "proper" way to get a root user shell is "sudo -i".

I'm not sure about that.  I've read both man pages, and I'm not sure
there's a difference.  I think you end up in the same place so to
speak.  Unless someone proves me wrong it's a habit I'm keeping :-)


>> Then crontab -e will work as expected.
> Not according to man crontab(1).

Yeah I know - I even quoted that section in my reply.   After
re-reading it, you are probably right on this one.  I always read that
as 'if you use su -c crontab -e' it might not work', but your
interpretation could very well be the correct one.

All that said - I tested it my way and it worked :-)  So that's the
way I recommended it....

Brian