On Tue, Apr 25, 2000, Kevin Steves wrote:
> Does the exec:/foo/bar mechanism to run an external program (for example
> to get truerand output for seeding, really need to run a shell? Is that
> so that users can use shell metachars for commands?
In general, yes. But the reason why mod_ssl uses an intermediate shell
is because it uses similar code as used the same way in other parts of
Apache. But for the exec:/foo/bar the shell is not really required.
You can change this yourself by editing line 247 of ssl_util.c.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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