Good points. Thanks for the guidance.
Cheers
On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Chris Pepper wrote:
"sudo" requires an argument; to get a root shell, use "sudo -s".
But sudo normally prompts for the password of the administrative
user running sudo, which is going to be a problem for a shell script.
You can run the script as root.
You can configure sudo not to require a password: "visudo" or
perhaps "sudo visudo" from the command line; then add "Defaults !
authenticate" at the top of the file.
Probably better to do something like this in a shell script (which
should be owned by root, not yourself, for security reasons; don't
put trailing slashes on the source directories or cp will misbehave):
/usr/local/bin/backup-web.sh:
#!/bin/sh
$TODAY=date "+%Y-%m-%d"
mkdir -p ~rich/Desktop/backup/$TODAY
cp -R /usr/local/mysql /etc/httpd/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/users ~rich/
Desktop/backup/$TODAY
chown -R rich ~rich/Desktop/backup/$TODAY
Then add a cron job for root: "sudo EDITOR=bbedit crontab -e" and
add an entry like this:
0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup-web.sh
Rich in Toronto
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