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Charles Green
Asked: 2017-11-05 09:24:42 +0800 CST

Sudo times out during long running script

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I have a long running script which issues several sudo prefaced commands. The execution time of the script is variable, and occasionally sudo times out while the script is running, meaning that I need to re-enter the password.

How can I run this script without needing to check the program and make sure it's still going?

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1 Answers

  1. If the script itself is run as sudo, it will not time out until the script has finished running. To ensure that sudo is used to run the script, I inserted the following lines near the top of my script:

    if [ `whoami` != 'root' ];
then
    echo "This program needs to be run using 'sudo'"
    exit
fi

    This ensures that the script has been started with sudo, and does not make any attempt to store passwords...

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