Hi, Well, I don't really think that's an issue having to do anything with LVM. It's something to do with 'security'. On most systems 'plain' users hVe quite modest rights in the etc directory, and for quite good reasons. You get that because the mode of /etc/lvmtab doesn't allow you to write to it, as forinstance vgscan would like to do.. letting a user run those programs sounds like a pretty bad idea, but if you still want to go ahead, there's at least 2 ways around it, 1) allow the webuser to sudo that command (see sodu/sudoers), or just get a cron job on root, that runs those commands, and dumps the output in a place where your CGI thingy can read it.. Denie ----- Original Message ----- From: bo To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:27 AM Subject: [linux-lvm] running lvm tool from user application script LVM gurus, I have been playing with the LVM tool for a while under ROOT privilledge. Today, I tried to run "lvscan" & "pvscan" from one of my user script to show LVM status to user. I realized I could not run them having the attached errors. Q1: Is that true I can not run "vgscan", "lvscan",... under user applciation which does not have "root" right? Q2: I want to run these utilities from my CGI script for Web GUI. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, BM ATTACH)------------------------------------------------------------------- Error2) mooasun>$cat /etc/*tab mooasun>$anacrontab fstab lvmtab raidtab mooasun>$crontab inittab mtab mooasun>$lvscan mooasun>$lvscan -- ERROR: "/etc/lvmtab" doesnot exist; please run vgscan Error1) mooasun>$vgscan mooasun>$vgscan -- LVM driver/module not loaded! _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html