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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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