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Posted by Colin McKinnon on 01/18/07 21:07
Aaron Gray wrote:
> "Toby Inkster" <usenet200701@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:bs7484-dcj.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk...
>> Aaron Gray wrote:
>>
>>> The signal in the shell script works fine from root but will not work
>>> when
>>> called from PHP.
>>
>> As Jerry indicated, you are probably trying to fix the wrong problem. If
>> we knew *why* you were trying to do this, then we might be able to tell
>> you an alternative to reloading Apache in the first place.
>
> Okay, I am working on putting to gether a server administration program
> thats written in PHP and runs in Apache. It needs to reload the
> configuration after adding, removing, or modifying the virtual web sites
> Apache is serving.
>
> The only simple way I can think of is to do a reload every 10 minutes or
> every hour, as a cron job, or so.
You are writing a server administration program but you don't know how
permissions work. Am I the only one to feel a bit worried at this point?
You need to read up on privilege separation. Certainly use sudo - but there
are other ways. Try Google or read the relevant parts of the Rute.
>
> No that requires a password to be entered.
>
Aaaaarrrgghhhhh!!!!!!
Read the sudo manual. Thouroughly, please.
C.
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