Restarting a process

[Mathias Waack]

Simon Faulkner wrote:

> I have written a small cgi script which updates the config file for
>  a www proxy server and I need to restart the service when I save
> out the config file.
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/danguardian restart
> 
> will do the trick but I can't run it as the apache user
> 
> Any ideas?

Of course: use another user. And another newsgroup. 

Or, to be more polite: have a look at sudo. This way its easy (and
relative secure) to run a command as a different user without a
password. 

Mathias