On 9/5/05, Pankaj Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to schedule a perl script in crontab using a CGI script. If i try to > append in the file ie /var/spool/cron/username then apache user does not > have rights to modify this. If i give root rights to apache then it could > be very harmful . how can i make entry into cron from script.
Google on "sudo". But there is no perfectly-safe way to do this. It will involve risks. You should see if you can at least limit it to the cron of a non-priveleged account. 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]
