Re^3: perl script using sudo

When you run the script from a normal prompt, you're running it as your normal user account, not www. So I would think that it's still the sudo requiring password issue. Either run the script from the command line using sudo -u www (something like: sudo -u www perl /path/to/perl/script.cgi) or add your normal account to the sudoers file.

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Re^4: perl script using sudo by cc (Beadle) on Jul 24, 2005 at 01:01 UTC
I solved this problem this perl code does his job very well: system `/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/ntop/ntop.sh stop` or die "cannot stop +ntop: $!"; sleep(8); $cc = `sudo /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/ntop/ntop.sh start` or die "cannot +start ntop: $!"; print "status:</font> ",$cc,"\n"; [download] Now I can stop and start ntop via browser ! greetings cc	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: perl script using sudo by halley (Prior) on Jul 24, 2005 at 16:48 UTC
You're still using backticks. You know, the little ` ` marks? And now you're using backticks and then calling `system()` with the RESULTS of the backticks. Er, hello?! `my $val = system("/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/ntop/ntop.sh stop"); die "command got results of $val" if $val != 0;` [download] Use regular strings to describe your command, and give that as an argument to the `system()` function. That runs a command. It returns a NUMBER result, such as 0 for success. As mentioned before, backticks returns a STRING of the program's output, which is a silly way to check for basic success in most cases. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]