你可以设置一个在后台运行的循环来定期执行“sudo -v”,当然是在你的脚本终止时让循环干净地终止.因此,两个过程之间必须存在某种类型的通信; tmp文件适用于此,并且在脚本运行后也可以轻松清理它们. (无论如何,安装脚本通常会这样做.)
例如(删除’echo’语句来使用它;这些只显示它“工作”):
#!/bin/bash
log=running_setup.txt
sudo_stat=sudo_status.txt
echo "========= running script $$========"
echo $$>> $sudo_stat
trap 'rm -f $sudo_stat >/dev/null 2>&1' 0
trap "exit 2" 1 2 3 15
sudo_me() {
while [ -f $sudo_stat ]; do
echo "checking $$...$(date)"
sudo -v
sleep 5
done &
}
echo "=setting up sudo heartbeat="
sudo -v
sudo_me
echo "=running setup=" | tee $log
while [ -f $log ]
do
echo "running setup $$...$(date) ===" | tee -a $log
sleep 2
done
# finish sudo loop
rm $sudo_stat
然后你会看到…(注意:pid被放入tmp文件,只是为了你可以很容易地杀死它.但是没有必要):
$./do_it.sh
========= running script 6776 ========
=setting up sudo heartbeat=
[sudo] password for user:
=running setup=
checking 6776 ...Wed May 4 16:31:47 PDT 2011
running setup 6776 ...Wed May 4 16:31:48 PDT 2011 ===
running setup 6776 ...Wed May 4 16:31:50 PDT 2011 ===
running setup 6776 ...Wed May 4 16:31:52 PDT 2011 ===
checking 6776 ...Wed May 4 16:31:53 PDT 2011
running setup 6776 ...Wed May 4 16:31:54 PDT 2011 ===
(cleans up files,then exits)