Re: Directory rights: Create and delete is possible but not ccggrp, why?

I have run into a problem similar to this. Basically what I have found is that there is no way to do this sort of thing using php through apache. I fixed my problem by writting a perl script that creates the directories and sets the permissions/groups correctly. I have php write out a text file and dump it into a directory, the perl script runs from cron and checks the directory every few minutes and creates the appropriate directories based on the data in the files. It a hackish way of doing it, but it actually works quite well. If you didn't want to use cron, you could just have a process running that monitors the directory constantly. There are a number of ways to do this, including using cgi php or C or whatever. There are very good reasons why you can't do what you want to do, you just have to get creative. K E I T H V A N C E Software Engineer n-Link Corporation On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Dominique Paquin wrote: > I posted a message last week on this subject, and I have searched for an > answer meanwhile. > > So i decided to re ask my question a little bit differently since i did not > find the answer to my problem: > > I use a web based application I am making and through this application I > create directories. I can create the directories with no problem using PHP > with full rights (777). The directories, then, needs to have their group > changed to something else and here is my problem, > > I tried a chgrp (the php function) from php to change it as well as > exec('chgrp'...) or exec('chown' ...) and then I tried a > system('chgrp'...) > and system('chown'...). All this to no success. Someone told me, here on the > list, that apache was runing as nobody:nobody, so it had no rights to change > rights. We changed the user:group of apache and called it apache:apache. > then we re-tried all our experiences, to no avail. I am sure I am having all > the rights necessary because I can delete the directories I create with no > trouble. > > Note: If I connect in console mode with the user apache, i can chown the > directory as I wish. > > Any suggestion on how to change rights on directories would be appreciated. > (With PHP or any other solution) > > Thanks in advance > > Dominique Paquin > Galea secured networks > > > > > -- > 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 > >