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I am trying to run this bash script as a cron job, but I am getting an error which says sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo. I am running this bash script in amazon EC2 linux instance. 

#!/bin/bash -
#get instance id - used for putting metric
INSTANCE_ID=`GET http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id`

#could be done using "free" or "vmstat" - use of less and grep is believed to provide widest compatibility - CJ 2011-11-24
memfree=`less /proc/meminfo | grep -i MemFree | grep -o [0-9]*`
swaptotal=`less /proc/meminfo | grep -i SwapTotal | grep -o [0-9]*`
swapfree=`less /proc/meminfo | grep -i SwapFree | grep -o [0-9]*`
swapused=$(($swaptotal-$swapfree))

#mon-put-data to put metrics
mon-put-data --metric-name MemoryFree --namespace EC2/Memory --value $memfree --unit Kilobytes --dimensions "InstanceId=$INSTANCE_ID"
mon-put-data --metric-name SwapUsed --namespace EC2/Memory --value $swapused --unit Kilobytes --dimensions "InstanceId=$INSTANCE_ID"

Kindly help me out to figure this out.

Khaled
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In sudoers config file, there is an option - requiretty - which will prevent you from running sudo without being logged as a real user.

see sudoers(5) man page
koressak
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The "requiretty" option may solve your problem.

Why not just install the cron job under the the user that you are attempting to sudo to?

Craig
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