Re: Running PHP scripts with root permissions!!!

If you don't want to necessarily do it via http, you can just compile php as a standalone binary - it won't affect your existing apache/php setup. Then create scripts with #!/usr/local/bin/php -q at the top like you might with perl or shell scripts, and run them as root. jason Hi everybody, Does anyone know how to run php scripts with root permissions? For example, i want to write a php script which shows last system messages using tail /var/log/messages. How can I do that without chmod 777 /var/log/messages!! That's very very URGENT!! httpd is being run by nobody. Should I change it? The owner can't be root in Apache (latest version). Regards, Ahmad Anvari