Thanks. I think I have a workaround. I will run a CRON job every 5 mins that checks for the existence of a file. The file will be called tethereal_on.txt or tethereal_off.txt. PHP will create the file to turn tethereal on/off. CRON will actually do it. Problem is the 5 min lag, but I don't want to CRON too often either.
-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Slive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 9:37 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Permissions problems starting tethereal from PHP in Apache On 11/30/05, Leo Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear httpd users, > > I am trying to start tethereal from within a PHP script running on Apache. > I am using the PHP system("tethereal", $return_val) command to do this. > > However I get an error something like "socket: Operation not permitted". > Does anyone know what I can do? The User/Group specified in httpd.conf doesn't have the rights to run the program. You can look into tools like sudo to grant more rights, but be careful since it is easy to compromise the security of your server. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
