Thanks for everyone's help, it was the permissions on /proc that were
causing the problems.  I changed it to 755 and everything is working
perfectly.

Thanks again.

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""Peter Phillips"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your help, this is what I get when I try a uptime while logged
in
> as nobody.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> host:/# su nobody
> host:/$ uptime
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
>   2:38am  up 0 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> These are the permissions is /proc:
> -r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jun 26 02:39 loadavg
> -r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jun 26 02:33 uptime
>
> What should they be to enable nobody to access uptime?
>
> Thanks again.
>
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> ""Tim Zickus"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> > Check the permissions on the files in /proc, which is where uptime gets
> its
> > info from, most likely.
> >
> > You could probably even read the pseudo-file '/proc/loadavg' as 'nobody'
> > directly from PHP given the appropriate file permissions.
> >
> > - Tim
> >   http://www.phptemplates.org
> >
> > > Richard Lynch's advice was correct, I cannot run uptime under nobody
for
> > > some reason.  Does anyone know how to change this?  The permissions
are
> > set
> > > to allow everyone to execute it.
> >
> >
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