cron, python and samba restart

[Nick Craig-Wood]

symbioid <symbioid at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Is there something in the way I'm calling with the subprocess.call()
>  function that's not able to work through cron?  My concern is that I'm
>  using sudo, and that may be where the problem lies.

http://www.gratisoft.us/pipermail/sudo-users/2005-May/002518.html

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com wrote:
> Your sudo is configured to only run when there is a tty
> present, whcih is not the case for cron jobs.  Usually this
> is due to a line like the following in sudoers:
> 
>     Defaults	requiretty
> 
> Removing this (or just disabling it for the user who must run the
> cron job) should eliminate the error.  Note that you will also need
> to disable authentication either via the NOPASSWD tag or the
> "authenticate" Defaults option.

Check the PATH in cron also

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