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Re: [PHP3] "suexec" for php? From: Sandino Araico Sanchez (sandino <email protected>)
Date: 08/11/99

Jason Haar wrote:

> You wrote:
> > Well, first, you have to be able to run php scripts as root -> will
> > be difficult from apache, because it doesn't want to start virtualserver
> > with Username root for (good) security reasons... Probably with some suid
> > progs it would work.
>
> That's not what I meant. I mean use PHP as a Unix tool - not a Web tool. I
> have tonnes of perl scripts (and shell scripts for that matter) that are
> used via cron - PHP could do most of them too.

You can run the php scripts you need from the root's crontab, this way you don't
need to worry about making php suexec.

>
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jason Haar
>
> Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
> Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
>
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