----- Original Message ----- Subject: [BlueOnyx:11512] Re: Need CGI script to execute command as root
>>> If you copy /etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf to /etc/admserv/conf.d/ and >>> restart AdmServ, it'll execute Perl scripts. But the scripts from the >>> RaQ4 might still not work, because it could be that they require RaQ4 >>> specific libraries which BlueOnyx doesn't have. > > I tried that, and was not successfull -- it still just displayed the > script when named .cgi or the browser tried to download it when named .pl. > So, I decided to rewrite the Perl script in PHP instead. How hard could it > be? > > I found a couple fantastic references that made the conversion to PHP > super easy by giving side by side comparisons of both languages: > > http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting > > http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~rkline/perl2php/ > > > Anyway, my rewritten PHP script now works fine EXCEPT that I get a > Permission Denied error when it actually goes to create the symlink. > > My form html and PHP pages are both in a subfolder of the > /usr/sausalito/ui/web folder. When I submit the form, the debug output on > the script shows that I am passing and parsing the variables just fine. > When my script gets to the part where it calls the PHP symlink function, I > get this error message: > > Warning: symlink() [function.symlink]: Permission denied in > {scriptname.php} on line 124 > > The symlink source dir is owned by root, permissions 0755. The target dir > is owned by the siteadmin:group of the site it is created in, with > permissions 2755. > > If I manually create a symlink from the commandline (logged in as root), > it succeeds. > > I am guessing that the PHP script is failing because it is not running as > root, even though it is running via admserv and not regular httpd. > > Are there any ideas on how to resolve this permission denied problem? > > Regards, > > David Thacker > > _______________________________________________ FWIW... How about a cronjob run as root? David _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx