Re: chown/chgrp not working

Ahh, it is not running with root priv., so this is the problem. Sounds like a good time to look for another way to skin this cat... Thanks! -- Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Gamble" <Darren.Gamble@sjrb.ca> To: "'Paul Warner'" <pwarner@winners-circle.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:21 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] chown/chgrp not working > Good day, > > What user is the application running as? Only the superuser can use these > functions (this is documented with both of these functions). > > For security reasons, you may want to use an external sudo script to > accomplish this. Be very, very careful... > > ============================ > Darren Gamble > Planner, Regional Services > Shaw Cablesystems GP > 630 - 3rd Avenue SW > Calgary, Alberta, Canada > T2P 4L4 > (403) 781-4948 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Warner [mailto:pwarner@winners-circle.com] > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 8:24 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] chown/chgrp not working > > > I have a client that I made a image uploader/thumbnailer for > that insists on using FrontPage. In order to make FP > happy, I need to set the owner to 'nobody' and the group > to 'site3' which are uid 99 and gid 117. The uploaded file > is set as httpd/root and the thumbnail created by the script > comes out httpd/site3. > > First I tried: > > chown($file_name, 99); > chgrp($file_name, 117); > > Next I tried: > > chown($file_name, '99'); > chgrp($file_name, '117'); > > This fails to get the uid or gid, so the first syntax appears > to be correct. > > Finally I tried: > > chown($file_name, 'nobody'); > chgrp($file_name, 'site3'); > > Error message for first and third attempts is identical: > > Warning: chown failed: Operation not permitted in > /home/sites/site3/web/dev/maintenance.php on line 191 > > Why is it 'not permitted' and how do I allow it? > > -- Paul > > > -- > 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 >