Chris Robinson wrote: > I am trying to run the folloing in woody using cron so my cron > > 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro > > #!/bin/sh > # > # > chgrp -R nogroup /usr/local/apache2/www/foodmanagementsystems.com/gary
That triggers alarm bells with me! That you want to do that causes me to wonder why you want to do that. This sounds like a bad idea to me. There will always be a window of time when a new file could be the wrong group. It always changes all of the files. Danger Will Robinson, danger! > I can not find a log. The macro does not work via cron. The macro runs > if I run it as root. Only root can chown files to another user. Only root can chgrp files to arbitrary groups. Users can only change the group to groups they belong to and no user should be in the nogroup group. Without knowing all of the details of what you are trying to do let me suggest that almost certainly what you want is to add gary to the www-group, and then chmod g+ws on the directories. The apache web server runs as the www-data user in the www-data group. Doing the above configuration will allow both the apache web server process and the user process in the www-data group to access the data. There is never a time when the file will be owner/group incorrectly. No cron task is needed. The files are not continously thrashed. Say more if you want more hints. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
