[mv] Rebuilding catalog cgi thru web

["Dennis Duval" <skip-minivend@seacove.net>]

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I have written a group of perl scripts which allows modification of the
products database as well as a couple of other databases through a browser.
They also allow modification of the random special files (rand1.html , etc).
However, some of these modifications seem to require that minivend be
stopped and restarted to rebuild the cgi executable.  I can easily write a
perl script that will allow me to do this from the command line, but when I
include the same code in a web application, it either errors out or fails to
do the requested restart.

Question 1:  Is restarting minivend the only way to rebuild the cgi
exectuable?  It seems inefficient to stop the program and rebuild all
catalogs just to generate a new cgi.

Question 2:  If restarting minivend is mandatory, how can I get it to
restart properly from within a web app?  I'm sure that there is a permission
or ownership problem that i'm overlooking.  I've tried relaxing permissions
on minivend and the stop/start scripts to a point that would let me do this,
even going as far as suid minivend.  But to no avail. Tried running the
apache virtual server as same group/user as minivend.  Still no luck.

Here is the perl code, which works find from a command line but will not
work from a web app:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$cmd = 'su -c /minivend/mvend/bin/restart minivend';
system($cmd);
exit;

I've tried endless variations of this such as:

$cmd = '/minivend/mvend/bin/restart';
$cmd = '/minivend/mvend/bin/minivend -serve';

Most variations work fine from the command line, but not from the web app.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Dennis Duval




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