On Monday 15 May 2006 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > could you drop the command into a spool, then run it off a queue?
>
> Interesting idea. Can you point to any docs that describe how to set up a
> batch queue in Linux al la VMS batch queue?
>
> > did you try setting the s(et)uid bit of the script?
>
> yeah didn't work. I placed the 'id' command in the top of the script and it
> doesn't report the id as 'matlab' it still reports it to be apache. Even
> though ls -l shows the script to be owned by matlab group apache and
> rwsrws---
>
> I vaguely recall that chmod +s is only valid for binaries as the command
> being executed is bash, the script is just a data file to bash. I could be
> wrong on this one though...
>
> > apache also has suexec, which might also help you.
>
> Hmmm, looks like this might be the one but there's some pain ahead I
> suspect.
Gentlemen it should be absolutely trivial for the cgi to run a compiled
program that is (a) suid to matlab (b) executes your script either as
fork/exec or even system ("do something");
James
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