[SOLVED] PHP show user/account in TOP command

yoachan · 07-11-2012, 07:50 PM

Dear all,

I want to show apache-php processes that runs on my server and on what account that process belong to. Basically I want top to display something like this:

Code:

  PID USER     PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
20686 user1    17   0  115m  18m 6444 R 56.2  0.2   0:01.69 php
20681 user1    17   0  116m  18m 6444 R 53.9  0.2   0:01.62 php
20574 user2    21   0  117m  21m 6444 R 43.3  0.3   0:04.74 php
20620 user2    19   0  118m  21m 6444 R 37.9  0.3   0:04.83 php
20636 user1    19   0  116m  19m 6444 R 34.3  0.2   0:03.46 php

instead of only showing 'nobody' that runs httpd like this

Code:

  PID USER     PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
18868 nobody   16   0  403m  58m 4248 S  8.0  1.5   0:05.31 httpd
12975 nobody   15   0  422m  74m 5940 S  6.0  1.9   0:20.27 httpd
13753 nobody   15   0  420m  72m 5828 S  4.0  1.9   0:26.25 httpd
12215 nobody   15   0  420m  71m 5900 S  2.0  1.8   0:22.88 httpd
21894 nobody   15   0  488m  91m 8084 S  2.0  2.4   1:39.80 httpd

I know it's possible for I took those two 'TOP' result as is from two separate machines that we have. Anyone has any idea how can I make it happens?

Thanks in advanced....

evo2 · 07-11-2012, 10:47 PM

Hi,

did you check the toprc files? Ie check for /etc/toprc on each machine and possibly the users toprc.
Also you should probably compare the version of top on each machine.

Evo2.

yoachan · 07-22-2012, 11:36 PM

@Evo2: sorry for my late reply.
FYI, I can't find toprc file on both machines...
And I'm almost sure that it's some kind of PHP or apache add on...

sharadchhetri · 07-23-2012, 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoachan

@Evo2: sorry for my late reply.
FYI, I can't find toprc file on both machines...
And I'm almost sure that it's some kind of PHP or apache add on...

try this

top -u user_name

yoachan · 07-23-2012, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sharadchhetri

try this

top -u user_name

@sharadchhetri: Thanks for your reply.

The result was Obvious:
in the machine that php username enabled, I can see the user and processes.
But for machine that displays 'nobody' only; nobody is the only thing I can get....

Again, it's not about the 'top' command, but something in php and/or apache setting that make each process be user specific...

sharadchhetri · 07-26-2012, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoachan

@sharadchhetri: Thanks for your reply.

The result was Obvious:
in the machine that php username enabled, I can see the user and processes.
But for machine that displays 'nobody' only; nobody is the only thing I can get....

Again, it's not about the 'top' command, but something in php and/or apache setting that make each process be user specific...

you can use system function in php and give the top command.
If I am not getting correctly , explain what actually you want .if possible paste ur php script

chrism01 · 07-27-2012, 12:48 AM

If these are php processes that are run as part of/by Apache (eg using mod-php), then of course they will run as the Apache user eg httpd, nobody, www ... whatever Apache runs as.
If you want to know who the 'user' is, you'd have to implement a login system/webpage and record the username in the program and then log the username + pid from the php program.

yoachan · 07-28-2012, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

If these are php processes that are run as part of/by Apache (eg using mod-php), then of course they will run as the Apache user eg httpd, nobody, www ... whatever Apache runs as.
If you want to know who the 'user' is, you'd have to implement a login system/webpage and record the username in the program and then log the username + pid from the php program.

@Chrism01: thanks for your reply. I don't quite know how to do that though. Is that means that I can see user names using 'TOP' command?
For what I'm looking for is to be able to see them through 'TOP' like my 1st example above.
For a note one of my machines do that...

regards,

YoChan

yoachan · 10-11-2012, 09:36 PM

Finally I've found the answer.
In case anyone looking for the answer, suPHP or suEXEC is all that I need.

Quote:

suPHP is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners. It consists of an Apache module (mod_suphp) and a setuid root binary (suphp) that is called by the Apache module to change the uid of the process executing the PHP interpreter.

Quote:

The suEXEC feature provides Apache users the ability to run CGI and SSI programs under user IDs different from the user ID of the calling web server. Normally, when a CGI or SSI program executes, it runs as the same user who is running the web server.

Case closed