Re: can't print, it it because no posix login?

Today Mailing List Mailbox wrote: > Trying to print from within PHP is giving this error: > > lpr: cannot create /var/spool/lpd/lj4050/.seq > > I've manually tested to make sure the user/group that the webserver is > running under can print so I'm not quite sure why when I try to do it from > PHP I get such an error. I tried to test what user PHP thought it was > printing as and the UID/GID are correct but no login name seems to > exist. Could this be the cause? > > <? > $uid = posix_getuid(); > $euid = posix_geteuid(); > $gid = posix_getgid(); > $egid = posix_getegid(); > $login = posix_getlogin(); > echo "<B>$login</B> <I>UID: $uid ($euid) GID: $gid > ($egid)</I>"; > ?> > > This lil code chunk returns: > > Warning: Cannot determine your login name. Something is really wrong > here. in /home/httpd/html/test/posix_getlogin.php on line 7 > UID: 99 (99) GID: 99 (99) > > > Anyone know why this is? Perhaps the user with uid 99 (who runs the webserver) has no valid login shell. -Ron -- UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because that policy would also keep them from doing clever things. (Doug Gwyn)