Trivial program to reload apache without root

.gitignore

/a2graceful

a2graceful.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main() {
    if (setuid(0) != 0) {
        perror("setuid");
        exit(1);
    };
    execl("/usr/sbin/service", "/usr/sbin/service", "apache2", "graceful", NULL);
    perror("execl");
    exit(1);
}

Makefile

PREFIX ?= /usr/local
CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra

BINDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin

.PHONY: all install clean distclean

all: a2graceful

a2graceful: a2graceful.o
	$(LINK.c) $^ -o $@

install: a2graceful
	install -m 4755 a2graceful $(BINDIR)

clean:
	@- $(RM) a2graceful.o a2graceful

distclean: clean