Bash Password

[The Little Guy]

I have a bash script that runs as a cron, and one of the commands in the script requires sudo to work. My question is how do I pass a password to sudo?

 

Here is the bash cron script:

 

#!/bin/bash
PHP_FPM_FOUND=`top -n 1 -b | grep -o php-fpm | wc -l`

if [ "$PHP_FPM_FOUND" = "0" ]
then
    sudo /etc/init.d/php-fpm start
    echo "Started php-fpm"
else
    echo "Didn't Start php-fpm"
fi

[Philip]

Set your account to no password in the sudo file would be the easiest (and laziest) fix.

[The Little Guy]

I tried this (/etc/sudoers):

 

ryannaddyps ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/php-fpm
ryannaddyps ALL=(ALL) ALL

 

It didn't work, does it look right?

[trq]

Assuming you have root access you would be better off installing this cron in roots crontab.

[The Little Guy]

I didn't think I could add the cron to root on my vps, but I guess I can....

 

It seems to be working now...

[The Little Guy]

I will know 100% if it worked tomorrow, php-fpm seems to stop around 2AM (my time), so I will update this then.

 

Thanks for the help!

[The Little Guy]

So the script worked last night!

 

My server was still running when I woke up this morning! So... I think this is solved!

 

Thanks for the suggestion!