Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:18:04 +0000 From: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sudo TTY Unknown messages Message-ID: <43B3FE2C.4020502@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43B3F12B.7010307@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> References: <43B3F12B.7010307@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
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Robin Becker wrote: > I am getting messages from sudo concerning an unknown TTY. > > eg > > Dec 29 02:30:40 www sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; > PWD=/usr/tmp/BU/svn_backups ; USER=www ; COMMAND=/usr/local/bin/svnadmin > dump -q -r0:19591 /svn/private > > I think this is caused by not having a tty device in the root cron job. > I would prefer to keep only one main cron job for my system or is that > frowned upon. I'm being daft; it seems sudo always logs itself. Is there away to get sudo to not syslog if it's root sudoing as www? I looked at sudoers, but couldn't see an obvious way to set !syslog for root > www using svnadmin or svnlook etc etc -- Robin Becker
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