And finally,
Conclusion.
(A: Section 6 below: Why is the system uptime string not displayed when the
cgi script is run under chroot?)
/bin/sh is needed at chroot for command interpretation.
(B: Section 4 below: Why does running uptime program under chroot yield
time
that is not accurate? 6:54P
On 2016-09-25, Kihaguru Gathura wrote:
> Thank you for ongoing suggestions, The web server in use is OpenBSD httpd
> and on a private network environment in perspective of security concerns.
Raul's suggestion, "A simple workaround might be to create a cron script
which writes uptime to a file onc
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:29:46PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:12:56PM +0300, Kihaguru Gathura wrote:
>
> > B: Section 4 below: Why does running uptime program under chroot yield time
> > that is not accurate? 6:54PM while the actual time was 9:54PM produced by
> > ru
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:12:56PM +0300, Kihaguru Gathura wrote:
> B: Section 4 below: Why does running uptime program under chroot yield time
> that is not accurate? 6:54PM while the actual time was 9:54PM produced by
> running uptime as root immediately after.
$ man localtime
specifically, yo
Thank you for ongoing suggestions, The web server in use is OpenBSD httpd
and on a private network environment in perspective of security concerns.
Kind regards,
Kihaguru.
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior <
glasswal...@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Em 25-09-2016 17:4
Em 25-09-2016 17:49, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior escreveu:
Last, but not least... not sure why C is your language of choice for CGI.
And looks like you're reinventing the wheel:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_status.html
A simple workaround might be to create a cron script which writes
uptime to a file once a minute.
If that is inadequate, it's probably worth getting into what problem
you are trying to solve.
I hope this helps,
--
Raul
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Kihaguru Gathura
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I
Em 25-09-2016 17:12, Kihaguru Gathura escreveu:
Hi All,
I have a small problem here. I am unable to display uptime online.
Yes, you have a conceptual problem. You're doing a CGI that executes a
binary. If, by any reason, /usr/bin/uptime is replaced with a malicious
program, you're in troubl
Hi All,
I have a small problem here. I am unable to display uptime online.
THE PROBLEM:
A: Section 6 below: Why is the system uptime string not displayed when the
cgi script is run under chroot?
B: Section 4 below: Why does running uptime program under chroot yield time
that is not accurate? 6
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