On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:32:50 +0200 Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> 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
