This will be short but sweet. When deploying some new servers today, I ran into a problem where no matter what, sudo bitched about syntax errors in my sudoers file. I tried a bunch of different options/whitespace tweaks/etc and nothing worked.

deploy ALL= NOPASSWD: monit restart my-app

Looks fine right? Nope.

Use absolute paths

This fixed it:

deploy ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/monit restart my-app

Everyone in the world's advice is to "just use visudo" but I couldn't find any info on what was actually causing the syntax error. Hopefully this helps a few lost souls.