Hi thanks for looking at the script..
Just to clarify, the scipt runs perfectly if $input it hardcoded eg
$input="httpd".
thus if the process is running then it exits, if the process is not
running then it exicutes
exec "/etc/init.d/$input restart &";
But if I use $input=$ARGV[0] to give the process name from the command
line, it runs as if the process is running if if I have stoped/killed
it..
the only reason for this is that there is a hidden character, but
where is it comming from ?
On 12/14/06, D. Bolliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gregory Machin am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2006 13:24:
> hi
Hi Gregory
> the script will not work
"Not work?" :-)
> if I use $ARGV[0] but works 100% if I hard
> code the $input variable;
> what have i missed ?
You can give anything as cmd line argument, and the script will tell you that
it is not running, because of
a) open PROS, "ps -ef|grep $input |";
combined with
b) unless ($line =~ m/grep/){...}
This script is running as root... that makes it even more important to check
user provided data, what exactly is executed in the shell, and what binaries
are called.
- use absolute paths for binaries (ps and grep in this case)
- make sure that $input only contains ascii characters
for example, in this case, only a to z:
my ($input) = $ARGV[0]=~/([a-z]{,16})/; # untested
die unless $input;
btw: /etc/init.d/grep start ???
This is a hint to also check if $input corresponds to a binary
in /etc/init.d at the beginning of the script :-)
This would solve the grep-not-allowed/script-uses-grep-and-does-not-work
problem :-)
What about also using /etc/init.d/some_daemon status and check if this
information is in sync with the ps output (it isn't always, and the restart
could therefore fail - what you don't test)
hope this helps
Dani
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> # if your prgram has the string "grep" in the name or in the path
> # this program won't work.
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> my $line;
> my $input;
>
> $input=$ARGV[0]; #$input="httpd";
> chomp $input;
> open PROS, "ps -ef|grep $input |";
>
> while ($line = <PROS>){
> unless ($line =~ m/grep/){
> print "$input is running\n";
> exit;
> }
> }
>
> print "$input isn't running\n";
> exec "/etc/init.d/$input restart &";
>
> Many thanks
>
> --
> Gregory Machin
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> www.linuxpro.co.za
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