sudo from crontab

From: Seth Rothenberg (SROTHENB_at_montefiore.org)
Date: 09/29/04

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    Greetings Sun managers,
    I am trying to run a perl script as root from a user's crontab.
    The user can run the command using sudo from a command prompt, without
    password.
    The log of the cron job shows that sudo is asking the user to type a
    password
    (presumably the user's own password).

    I was wondering if anyone has done this?
    We are presently at sudo v. 1.6.7p5

    Thanks
    Seth
    PS The script I am running manipulates print jobs in /var/spool/print.
     For the time being,
    I added this user to the lp group and made that directory group
    writable - no sudo needed.
    Does anyone have a better/safer/cleaner suggestion? Thx
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