On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:32:50 +0200 > Pierre Schmitz <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:22:03 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck > > > > You can setuid the file and give it a specific owner, it will be > > > run as that user. If that's what you're asking. > > > > Yes, thought about that too. But: nobody shouldn't own any files; > > especially executables. And: afaik you cannot suid a shell-script. The > > script is not run, but the interpreter which then runs the script. > > ah, right. is there a specific reason why nobody shouldn't own any > files? > > > > > Also, make sure we don't ddos ourselves. > > > > Well, collecting the data is not that expensive. But there is still > > some room to make it even cheaper if needed. But afaik weekly crons > > are not executed at the same milisecond and there are also different > > time zones and not every clock is in sync. > > > > sure, just thought i would mention. At my previous company an > iphone-app developer built an app which automatically polled our > servers every x minutes, and we got a self-inflicted ddos when it went > live :) > > Dieter > Couldn't we just submit these kind of statistics to somewhere "in the cloud". Google App Engine for example. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
