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...he proxy (http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy) were preserved for the sudo account, as described here: http://blog.troyastle.com/2009/11/proxy-environment-variables-and-sudo-in.html using 'gedit' instead of 'visudo', as described here: http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/edit-etcsudoers-with-gedit-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron/ I put the 'R-sig-Debian' list in cc just in case this may be useful for somebody else Thank you very much to you all. Kind regards, Mauricio 2010/6/7 Christophe Bonenfant <bonenfan at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr>: > To check whether you have a...

I need to remove empty files out of a directory that are over 6 hours old so I created this script and put it in cron.hourly. #!/bin/sh cd /var/list sudo -u matt find /var/list -mmin +360 -empty -user matt -exec rm {} \; I want to run it as matt rather than root for just an added bit of safety. Problem is I get this. "sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo" Is there another