On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM, madhav <madhav....@gmail.com> wrote: > I have got postfix installed on my machine and I am updating on of its > configuration files programmatically(using python)(on some action). > Since any change in the configuration needs a reload, I need to reload > postfix to reflect the latest change. How can I do that in a python > script. Precisely, I have something like this: > > import subprocess > subprocess.Popen('sudo /etc/init.d/postifx reload') > > Since this script should be run in no-human environment(on the fly), I > cant supply the sudo password or even root password(if needed). Even > sudo doesn't have a flag to input the password for the command at the > first shot. How do I do this?
pexpect may be useful in this situation - http://www.noah.org/wiki/Pexpect Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list