Re: Directory rights: Create and delete is possible but notccggrp, why?

Thanks a lot for the answer, it's the first constructive response i have for my problem. I was banging my head on the walls with this one. I might just use C/Cron to correct this. If you implemented this could you guide me a little bit in the steps to follow to complete this? Thanks again. Dominique Paquin. "Keith Vance" <kvance@n-link.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.30.0103220904540.7317-100000@jojo.n-link.net... > 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 > > > > > > > -- > 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 >