Thanks a lot for the answer, it's the first constructive response i have for
my problem.
I was banging my head on the walls with this one.
I might just use C/Cron to correct this. If you implemented this could you
guide me a little
bit in the steps to follow to complete this?
Thanks again.
Dominique Paquin.
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> I have run into a problem similar to this. Basically what I have found is
> that there is no way to do this sort of thing using php through apache.
> I fixed my problem by writting a perl script that creates the directories
> and sets the permissions/groups correctly. I have php write out a text
> file and dump it into a directory, the perl script runs from cron and
> checks the directory every few minutes and creates the appropriate
> directories based on the data in the files. It a hackish way of doing it,
> but it actually works quite well. If you didn't want to use cron, you
> could just have a process running that monitors the directory constantly.
> There are a number of ways to do this, including using cgi php or C or
> whatever.
> There are very good reasons why you can't do what you want to do, you
> just have to get creative.
>
> K E I T H V A N C E
> Software Engineer
> n-Link Corporation
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Dominique Paquin wrote:
>
> > I posted a message last week on this subject, and I have searched for an
> > answer meanwhile.
> >
> > So i decided to re ask my question a little bit differently since i did
not
> > find the answer to my problem:
> >
> > I use a web based application I am making and through this application I
> > create directories. I can create the directories with no problem using
PHP
> > with full rights (777). The directories, then, needs to have their group
> > changed to something else and here is my problem,
> >
> > I tried a chgrp (the php function) from php to change it as well as
> > exec('chgrp'...) or exec('chown' ...) and then I tried a
system('chgrp'...)
> > and system('chown'...). All this to no success. Someone told me, here on
the
> > list, that apache was runing as nobody:nobody, so it had no rights to
change
> > rights. We changed the user:group of apache and called it apache:apache.
> > then we re-tried all our experiences, to no avail. I am sure I am having
all
> > the rights necessary because I can delete the directories I create with
no
> > trouble.
> >
> > Note: If I connect in console mode with the user apache, i can chown the
> > directory as I wish.
> >
> > Any suggestion on how to change rights on directories would be
appreciated.
> > (With PHP or any other solution)
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Dominique Paquin
> > Galea secured networks
> >
> >
> >
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