On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be>wrote:

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:32:50 +0200 Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:

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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:22:03 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck

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You can setuid the file and give it a specific owner, it will be run as that user. If that's what you're asking.

Yes, thought about that too. But: nobody shouldn't own any files; especially executables. And: afaik you cannot suid a shell-script. The script is not run, but the interpreter which then runs the script.

ah, right. is there a specific reason why nobody shouldn't own any files?

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Also, make sure we don't ddos ourselves.

Well, collecting the data is not that expensive. But there is still some room to make it even cheaper if needed. But afaik weekly crons are not executed at the same milisecond and there are also different time zones and not every clock is in sync.

sure, just thought i would mention. At my previous company an iphone-app developer built an app which automatically polled our servers every x minutes, and we got a self-inflicted ddos when it went live :)

Dieter

Couldn't we just submit these kind of statistics to somewhere "in the cloud". Google App Engine for example. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa