> I'd like to run squid -k reconfigure from Web form. I know it
> sounds like a
> crazy idea, but that's what I like to do. The idea is make a
> sevice that
> gives a teacher an easy way to restrain class from Internet.
> The other part
> of program works but managing Squid isn't.
> I have perl script which works fine when run from shell, but
> not when run
> with Apache. I wonder if it's possible at all?
>
> system("/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure") causes:
> squid: ERROR: Could not send signal 1 to process 3646: (1)
> Operation not
> permitted
>
Probably, the intended program must run under the same uid as the
user squid is being configured to run under in squid.conf or else
the application must run as root.
M.
