APM: chmod doesn't die

Wayne Walker wwalker at broadq.com
Tue Apr 29 10:11:25 CDT 2003


The issue here is who the CGI runs as.

ps -elf | grep httpd

1 process should be root and all the others will be a different
username.  That's what you need to chown things to.  (Unless apache is
running in suexec mode, in which case you will have to read up on
suexec).

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:49:53AM -0500, Goldilox wrote:
> Thanks for everyone's help and explanations. Related to this, I want to now
> chown the files to Perl so Perl can manipulate the files. Do I chown to
> 'nobody' for this purpose? (This is perl, v5.8.0 built for aix)
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Rhett
> 
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