On 2/15/06, Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/14/06, nishanth ev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to start and stop a serviec using cgi script. > > Thanks for including your new code. It doesn't seem to change anything > important, though. Have you tried any of the suggestions you've > already gotten? Did you use $< and $> to learn what user-id the script > is running under? Did you capture the output of the command you're > running, to see whether it's trying to tell you something? > > Cheers! >
Also, what permissions do you have enabled (or disabled) in httpd.conf and htaccess? If the script is owned by root, there's a good change it's not executable by the web user (usually www or nobody) unless it's world executable. And if it is world executable, then there's a whole other set of issues. try changing the ownership to 'www' or 'nobody'. Otherwise, you'll have to dig into the apache conf files. Web servers actually go to a great deal of trouble to prevent what you're doing. It's possible if you wrk at it hard enough, but it's a bad idea. if someone can find a way to get a file into a +EXEC directory on your webserver (if your permissions are this loose, it's probably not hard), and you allow scipts to be executed as root... It's much better to use a cron job that monitors a file, or a deamon that waits for input from a CGI script and does some basic verification and sanity checks. just my $.02, -- j -------------------------------------------------- This email and attachment(s): [ ] blogable; [ x ] ask first; [ ] private and confidential daggerquill [at] gmail [dot] com http://www.tuaw.com http://www.dpguru.com http://www.engatiki.org values of β will give rise to dom!
