Re: chown() despiration

On Thursday 23 January 2003 21:49, Urb LeJeune wrote: > I could do this in perl but I'm being stubborn :-) > > When I run the following code as a regular user, everything fails. > When I run it as root the directory is created and the chmod > works. However, chown reports: [snip] > To help save my few reamining hairs and could someone with > root privilege try it and see if it's me or PHP? Running following as root using 4.3.0 CLI: <?php $Directory2Create = "/tmp/htdocs"; mkdir($Directory2Create,0777); chown($Directory2Create,"jason"); chmod($Directory2Create,0777); ?> #ls -al /tmp drwxrwxrwx 2 jason root 4096 Jan 24 02:15 htdocs > also tried > chown($Directory2Create,"egovdemo:nobody"); chown() can only change user, use chgrp() to change the group! > chown($Directory2Create,"637"); Try it without quotes. It works for me. > chown($Directory2Create,"637:99"); See comment above. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill. */