I tackled a similar problem by running a root cron job that does the chown and chgrp every x minutes.
Fred Paul Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 023601c179b6$a35bdd80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:023601c179b6$a35bdd80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Ahh, it is not running with root priv., so this is the problem. Sounds like > a good time to look > for another way to skin this cat... > > Thanks! > > -- Paul > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darren Gamble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Paul Warner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:21 AM > Subject: RE: [PHP] chown/chgrp not working > > > > Good day, > > > > What user is the application running as? Only the superuser can use these > > functions (this is documented with both of these functions). > > > > For security reasons, you may want to use an external sudo script to > > accomplish this. Be very, very careful... > > > > ============================ > > Darren Gamble > > Planner, Regional Services > > Shaw Cablesystems GP > > 630 - 3rd Avenue SW > > Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > T2P 4L4 > > (403) 781-4948 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul Warner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 8:24 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [PHP] chown/chgrp not working > > > > > > I have a client that I made a image uploader/thumbnailer for > > that insists on using FrontPage. In order to make FP > > happy, I need to set the owner to 'nobody' and the group > > to 'site3' which are uid 99 and gid 117. The uploaded file > > is set as httpd/root and the thumbnail created by the script > > comes out httpd/site3. > > > > First I tried: > > > > chown($file_name, 99); > > chgrp($file_name, 117); > > > > Next I tried: > > > > chown($file_name, '99'); > > chgrp($file_name, '117'); > > > > This fails to get the uid or gid, so the first syntax appears > > to be correct. > > > > Finally I tried: > > > > chown($file_name, 'nobody'); > > chgrp($file_name, 'site3'); > > > > Error message for first and third attempts is identical: > > > > Warning: chown failed: Operation not permitted in > > /home/sites/site3/web/dev/maintenance.php on line 191 > > > > Why is it 'not permitted' and how do I allow it? > > > > -- Paul > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
