RE: cgi & syslog

2001-08-16 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Frank Wu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cgi & syslog > > > Hi all, > > I'm writing a simple perl cgi script to populate some > infomatio

Re: cgi & syslog

2001-08-15 Thread Morbus Iff
>Does anybody know how to access root owned file via cgi script? Not unless your webserver (which runs the cgi script with its own permissions) is set as root, and that's normally a big no-no. There is a Syslog module though - you may want to look into that (I know nothing about it, though)...

cgi & syslog

2001-08-15 Thread Frank Wu
Hi all, I'm writing a simple perl cgi script to populate some infomation from syslog file, open FILE, " | tail /var/log/daemon.log"; but always got permission denied, no matter what i do about $>, $< Does anybody know how to access root owned file via cgi script? Thank in advance Fra