>> Don't use sudo in a script.  You can set your cron job to run as a
>> particular user.

script runs ok as vmail:

sudo -u vmail /usr/local/bin/arch

BUT, when I try to run from crontab as vmail

get:
bin/sh /usr/local/bin/arch perm denied

/etc/passwd has
vmail:x:5000:5000::/home/vmail:/bin/false

is this what I need, replace 'false' with... 'nologin' ? 'sh'?



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