On Tuesday 24 August 2004 16:25 zentara's cat walking on the keyboard wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:57:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Ferrari) > > wrote: > >Hi, > >I'm using a perl cgi program as interface for a backup shell script. The > > bash script, which uses cdrecord to burn a cdrom, works fine, but when I > > call it from the perl cgi it reports errors. In particular cdrecord says > > there are errors (but not what). I've called the script with a quote: > >@output = `recordCD.sh` > >and in fact the script starts, but I believe there's a problem of > > permissions. If I run manually the shell script from a non-root user it > > works, but maybe it does not works with apache given privileges. Any > > idea? > > non-root users have more priviledges than the apache user priviledges. > > The apache user is as low as you can go, so directories that you write > to must be "world-writable" or 777. > In fact, I was confused by permissions on a link /dev/cdrecorder without taking into account permissions on the real device, /dev/hdc. > Your best bet is to run apache with "suexec" enabled, which allows you > to run CGI as a real user from a ~/public_html dir. Suexec is usually > automatically enabled, if it's found in the path. Search the web for > "suexec" for discussions of how to use it. > I'll try to understand how to use suexec. Thanks, Luca -- Luca Ferrari, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
