Re: [PROBLEM] Killed sshd, want to start it via PHP script.

Yeah, but as it is, I can't start those things :P I must be root to do so. Apache is not running as root. //Simon Jason Wong wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2003 13:01, Simon Fredriksson wrote: > > >>Anyway; I want to make some sort of PHP backdoor to start sshd again. As >>far as I know, only root can do so though so just an exec() won't do. >>How can I switch to root, enter the password and then start sshd via a >>PHP script that I run via the web? > > > I know PHP is pretty versatile and all that, but I'm still amazed at the kinds > of things that people want PHP to do when there are better and more > appropriate alternatives: > > The simplest requiring no more than a shell script is to run a cron job which > figures out whether sshd is running, if not start it. > > Further up the scale you can use xinetd. > > Even further, you can use something like daemontools to supervise your "must > run" daemons. >