On 11/30/05, Leo Papadopoulos <leo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear httpd users, > > I am trying to start tethereal from within a PHP script running on Apache. > I am using the PHP system("tethereal", $return_val) command to do this. > > However I get an error something like "socket: Operation not permitted". > Does anyone know what I can do? The User/Group specified in httpd.conf doesn't have the rights to run the program. You can look into tools like sudo to grant more rights, but be careful since it is easy to compromise the security of your server. 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