[Gllug] Perl Question

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Robert Wood wrote:

>         I have written a Perl script that adds a virtual host to the
> end of my httpd.conf file from input i give it on a form, and now i
> need the script to run apachectl after its done it, but since this is
> a root command, how can i get the script to run it?

You can use sudo to call it from your script.

This does introduce a security risk however so make sure you have 
sanitised your environment first and that nobody else can execute 
scripts/CGI on the server as that user.

Jason Clifford
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