Re: is_writable() not working on PHP 5.1.6

Thanks for your answer, It was a bit late because we already disabled selinux just to try, and it worked :) But hopefully this could help someone that bumps into the same problem. On a live webserver, what security issues would disableing the selinux cause? Any? Best regards, Peter Lauri Quoting Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com>:

lists@dwsasia.com wrote:

Some additional information: On the running server I am getting this dumped: audit(1168010361.652:217): avc: denied { write } for pid=2924 comm="httpd" name="hcat.log" dev=dm-0 ino=8718108 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=root:object_r:etc_runtime_t:s0 tclass=file

smells like your on a system that's employing selinux (http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/) or something similar. if that is the case then this is not a php issue and you'll have to dig into your server's setup/configuration to figure out what is implementing this extra security wrapper and how you can tell it to allow your webserver to access to the given dir/file.

Anyone? /Peter Quoting lists@dwsasia.com:

Hi, I am running Fedora Core 6 with PHP 5.1.6 This little snippet will output "the file is not writable": if (file_exists($file)) {

    if(!is_writeable($menu_filename)){
        echo "the file is not writable";
    }

} else echo "The file does not exist"; I have set the permissions to 777 for the file and also put group and user to apaches user. So that is not an issue. I have seen some bug reports on this, but haven't figured out how to solve it. Is this a PHP 5.1.6 related bug? I haven't seen any fix or similar. Best regards, Peter Lauri --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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