I'm after writing something similair with perl, however not sure how do
issue `service squid reload`, since the command requires root
privileges, and apache won't run as root since it's too dangerous.

What's the best way of getting around this?

Regards,
Adam

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 22:42, Craig Baird wrote:
> Use cgi-lib.pl and Perl to get the data from your web forms into your 
> script.  You can get cgi-lib.pl from:
> 
> http://cgi-lib.berkeley.edu
> 
> -- 
> Craig
> Xpressweb Internet Services
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.xpressweb.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Mark A Lewis wrote:
> 
> > I have been trying to find a way to allow users to remove sites from the ads 
>blacklist, currently I am doing it via a simple little script that asks them for the 
>domain to be removed and then writes that to a log (to allow them to be removed from 
>updates as well), removes it from the list and reloads squid. But, this requires them 
>to ssh to the machine, log in with a generic account and so on and soforth... I am 
>looking for a way to move this to a web form, I have googled till I am blue in the 
>face with no luck. Basically what I need is a way to pass the form input as a 
>variable to a script to perform the same action. Has anyone ever seen this done or 
>have any ideas on how to approach this?
> > 
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > Mark 
> > 
> 

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