[Gllug] Perl Question

[Simon Wilcox]

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:23, Robert Wood wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
>         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?
> 
> Any pointers will be greatly appreciated

Run a shell script from cron as a different user that looks for a newer
httpd.conf than some reference file, run apachectl (using sudo probably)
and then touch the reference file.

Then your apache user never has an opportunity to run privileged
commands.

Simon.

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