Running a command line app with sudo and password automatically on OS X startup

Posted by Designer023 on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Designer023
Published on 2012-06-18T08:38:24Z Indexed on 2012/06/18 15:18 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 238

Filed under:
|
|
|
|

I need to run an app at startup/login on my mac. I want it to launch in the background and start doing it's work without interrupting me or me having to start it up because I invariably forget and then when I need it, it wasn't running!

I have tried using AppleScript to tell Terminal to run it and type my password in, but it ends up opening multiple Terminal windows and not working. Ideally I need a script that I can just add to the user login items and it will run for me.

The app has no way of taking a password argument either and it has a password as well as the sudo! I need a solution that can either be done as an applescript (which can be made into an executable) or i need a commandline script but I have no idea about them.

This is the manual code I type

$ sudo serverStatus
password:123456
password:serverpass

My AppleScript:

tell application Terminal
 activate
 do shell script "sudo serverStatus"
 delay 5
 do shell script "123456"
 delay 2
 do shell script "serverpass"
end tell

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about osx

Related posts about command-line