On 12/16/13 4:29 PM, David Skinner wrote:
> I've thought about doing it queue style. However, I was hoping to find a
> more synchronous style. Something where the original API call can return
> the results (success/fail) of the executed shell script. Doing what Trevyn
> Meyer suggested would most likely work, but we were hoping for the
> execution to happen as the API call comes in rather than having the result
> of the queued process happen up to 1 minute later (assuming a cron running
> every minute). Also note that this API would not be used by many. So the
> API calls would most likely come at most 2 - 3 times a day. Very minimal
> traffic. We'd just prefer the process to be more instantaneous, which is
> why I was thinking something like Node. What Chris London described is
> basically what we're looking for.

You could always just use sudo with a shell script to have your script 
change to the correct user.  You'd want to be very careful about that, 
but it could be done securely.

Steve

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