Does anyone know if it's possible to capture TCP_TIMESTAMP using a socket.
If you could do that you wouldn't need to execute /usr/bin/uptime
Andy.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Uptime error
> > I have a PHP script with the following code in it;
> >
> > $uptime = passthru ("/usr/bin/uptime");
> >
> > but when I load the PHP page I get the following;
> >
> > 8:26pm up 0 min, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> > which is wrong (I have checked the uptime via telnet). Can anybody
please
> > help me try and fix this?
>
> When you checked uptime via telnet, were you logged in as "nobody", or
> whomever PHP runs as?... If not, you haven't really duplicated the
> circumstances where PHP exists.
>
> I can't think why "nobody" wouldn'y be allowed to do "uptime", but maybe
> there's some security issue involved. Too bad those load numbers aren't
> right though :-)
>
> You may have to resort to creating a suid shell script with some "real"
user
> as owner for PHP to be able to run it to do uptime. See "man suid" for
> details.
>
> BE CAREFUL. A mis-configured suid script is a security risk. Actually,
> that's like saying a sucking chest wound is a "cut" :-^
>
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