On 9/5/05, Pankaj Kumar <pankaj2.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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