[mythtv-users] RE: MythTV Webminmodule - anyone interested?

Bill Bradley wbradley at bham.rr.com
Thu Feb 12 15:32:06 EST 2004


On Thursday 12 February 2004 01:56 pm, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > That shouldn't be too difficult.  Just write a shell script that restarts
> > the backend service and slap a link/button to the script on the header of
> > the mythweb pages.  You could even do it with php....
>
> Except that the sysV init script to restart mythbackend must be run by
> root, php doesn't run as root, and chmod 4755 doesn't work on scripts.

duuuh...i guess thats what happens when you spend your days fixing people 
jammed printers and telling them that passwords ARE case sensitive.  

What about a script that calls through sudo....



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