We record various classes with a custom "podcast" facility. It works great but must be started manually. I've created a form that collects the necessary information such as topic, presenter, location, date, time, duration, etc. with the intent of sending this request to either the "at" utility or "crontab" based on the situation. I then use a call to a script to accomplish this.
It does schedule and trigger correctly BUT when requested this way the job fails due to permissions or lack thereof. Of course the user name it is trying to run under is the user and group name of the apache server which is normal. Unfortunately we all know that this user is quite ilmited with regards to permissions.
Research has shown that apache supports the "suexec" module to allow properly defined requests to run and another predefined user/group and if I can run my queues job as the username of the command itself it will work.
My research also shows several ways to incorporate suexec into the apache server. Therefore I was wondering if any of you readers have ever installed or utilized suexec in your apache environment that you run Drupal on?
Any pointers or suggestions will be greatly reviewed and appreciated. - Bob :-)