Re: unlink file rights problem

Merlin Morgenstern wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to unlink a file which is inside a folder that is not > writable to phps user "www". Of course this failes, but I need to find a > solution for it. > > Backgroud is following: > I have pure-ftpd installed where user directories get created by > pure-ftpd. Unfortunatelly there seems to be a bug and pure-ftpd does > only create the homedirectory folder in 750 mod. > My PHP-Script scans this directories every x minutes and processes those > files. Upon completinon those files should get deleted, but as the dir > is not writable by the user www this failes. > > The dir looks like this: > drwxr-x--- 2 ftpuser ftpgroup 4096 Jan 28 10:18 merlin/ > > files inside look like this: > -rwxrwx--- 1 ftpuser ftpgroup 16868 Jan 28 10:20 test.xml* > > User www which executes php via cron is inside the group "ftpgroup". > > Any ideas? I am kind of lost with this one. Thank you for any help! > > Best regards, Merlin Why not run the cron as root, or ftpuser? -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com