Re: Restart BIND from a php script

Hi, Monday, September 16, 2002, 10:52:37 AM, you wrote: GH> Not sure how to go about this. I'd like a way to restart bind from a php GH> script I have. GH> The biggest problems I have are permission related. Calling exec(), GH> system() or using popen() all fail due to the permissions. I tried GH> making a suid bash script that did the same thing and this failed too. GH> Seems like it failed to set itself suid root while being called from the GH> php script. GH> Finally I tried make a suid C prog to restart bind and then calling that GH> from a php script but that fails too. GH> Any ideas? GH> Thanks GH> Gareth GH> Ps. My partition is not mounted nosuid either. If you are using bind version 9 you can use the rndc interface to restart (as in reload it's config files) You can then set up the rndc executable with whatever owner your web server is running as. -- regards, Tom