Re: Creating Directorys (slightlyOT)

Definately check the umask and uid/gid/eid. Log in as that user and try to create it. Most likely the server is running as "nobody" or as another user and simply doesn't have access to it. Run a ps -aux (on Linux - for other OS's your milage may vary) and see who that server is running as. Make sure that the scripts executed by process (x) aren't running as yet ANOTHER persona. I know of a few programs which'll run as "nobody" and then run as "personX" for all "userspace scripts." That particular case is redundant, yes - many programs that run as root will employ this to help quarantine userscripts for security reasons though. 'Luck! -Szii At 12:11 AM 2/8/2001 -0700, Michael Dearman wrote: > > >Website4S@aol.com wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to install a free mailing list manager for a mate, I have spent >> numerous hours trying to figure out why it won`t setup properly. I installed >> it on one of my own servers and it worked fine but not on his, however I have >> now dwindled it down to the fact that his server won`t allow the script to >> create directorys. I have checked the chmod and that is fine but I`m stumped. >> Anyone else have a possible solution?? >> > >Until someone who might actually know something shows up... > >What platforms? >umask? >real uid, gid vs effective(the process running the script) uid, gid? >permissions of the parent directory? > >I get all queezy when trying to sort this stuff out. > >Mike D. > >> Thanks >> Ade >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >> For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >