Nick Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make the wwwoffle caching proxy work with dial up.
> Wwwoffle is started at boot with an empty resolv.conf and will then
> complain about resolv.conf being changed by ppp after the connection is
> setup (Non-Authorititive lookup). I'm using Kppp to control the
> connection and am trying to use its post connection command option to
> restart wwwoffle and put it in online mode.
>
> I have a script, which works just fine if I am root (wwwoffle is running
> as root), but will not work if I am a user (don't own wwwoffle,
> therefore can't kill it). So I set the script ownership to root and
> turned on the SUID bit. But still I can't kill wwwoffle. Any ideas why?
> Is there a better approach?
>
> Here are the relevant bits from my script.
>
> case $1 in
> connect)
> /usr/lib/sendmail -q
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/wwwoffle stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/wwwoffle start
> ....
>
The easiest thing to do is to translate it to a SUID perl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use English;
$ARGV[0] =~ /(.{1,80})/; # detaint
$_ = $1;
/connect/ && do {
system("/usr/lib/sendmail -q");
system("/etc/rc.d/init.d/wwwoffle stop");
system("/etc/rc.d/init.d/wwwoffle start");
exit;
};
...
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