Thanks JL, I'll look into sudo.
Trev.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:36 PM
To: Trevor Ouellette
Cc: E-Smith Developers Info Mailing List
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Restarting squid from an I-Bay
You could install and configure sudo to allow www user to execute init.d
scripts as root...
I haven't done it before, but i've used sudo, and it works quite well. Has
anyone tried it on an e-smith box?
-JL
Quoting Trevor Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I know that I've asked all of you this before... but someone here must
> be
> smart enough to figure this out with me... <GRIN>
>
> If anyone knows how to restart squid from an Ibay, please let me
> know...
> what permissions to set, etc. I have no problem executing a script
> that
> runs "/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid restart", but squid realizes what I'm doing
> and
> promply stops. I'm running as user "www" because it's a I-Bay.
>
> Can I run an I-Bay from port :980? It's a PHP script BTW, not perl.
> I'm
> putting this challenge out to all of you! I will do my best to answer
> any
> questions that you may have re: this problem.
>
> Trev.
>
>
>
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