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Write a shell script to do what you want and sudo the shell script.
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Write a shell script to do what you want and sudo the shell script.

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It's rather becouse MTA does not run Your code under shell (so the redirects do not work).<br />
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Write script, which will call the sudo ans stuff, then put into /etc/mail/aliases<br />
aliasId: | &quot;/path/to/script.sh&quot;<br />

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It's rather becouse MTA does not run Your code under shell (so the redirects do not work).

Write script, which will call the sudo ans stuff, then put into /etc/mail/aliases
aliasId: | "/path/to/script.sh"


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Is there a way to direct the stdout/stderror of a sudo command to a file in the target sudo user's directory? For example, I'm sudo'ing from my /etc/mail/aliases as:<br />
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aliasId: |&quot;/usr/bin/sudo -u ar '/user/util/bin/DistRegist<wbr />er&quot;<br />
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which works fine, but what I'd like is something like:<br />
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aliasId: |&quot;/usr/bin/sudo -u ar '/user/util/bin/DistRegist<wbr />er &gt;&gt;/home/ar/DistRegister.lo<wbr />g 2&gt;&amp;1'&quot;<br />
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specified this way, sudo can't find the command (it thinks everything inside the single quotes is the command). If I leave off the single quotes, I get a permission error on /home/ar/DistRegister.log because the mailer daemon is trying to access it.<br />
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Any solutions? Perhaps something in the sudoers file?<br />
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Linux 2.4.29
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Is there a way to direct the stdout/stderror of a sudo command to a file in the target sudo user's directory? For example, I'm sudo'ing from my /etc/mail/aliases as:

aliasId: |"/usr/bin/sudo -u ar '/user/util/bin/DistRegister"

which works fine, but what I'd like is something like:

aliasId: |"/usr/bin/sudo -u ar '/user/util/bin/DistRegister >>/home/ar/DistRegister.log 2>&1'"

specified this way, sudo can't find the command (it thinks everything inside the single quotes is the command). If I leave off the single quotes, I get a permission error on /home/ar/DistRegister.log because the mailer daemon is trying to access it.

Any solutions? Perhaps something in the sudoers file?

Linux 2.4.29

Redirect stdout of sudo to target user's file

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