Having had a brief look around, the Community Centre in my town has a room that they will hire out for 18UKP; is there an issue with all attendees chipping in a couple of pounds? If so, I'll happily look around in a bit more detail :-)

Aquarius

Well as I said the other night I can contribute at least 2UKP and if I get the job I've been put up for I will contribute the whole cost. adamb> [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

I expect to be going to ALUG and can give 3 or 4 people a lift from Essex Uni or Colchester. Any takers? ..Adrian -- Dr Adrian F Clark http://esewww.essex.ac.uk/~alien/ alien@essex.ac.uk -- VOICE: +44 1206 872432 -- FAX: +44 1206 872900 Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, C04 3SQ, UK [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD wrote:

I was wondering if you could help on the following problem. I'm developing some cgi scripts using perl on RedHat Linux 6, with the default apache installation. Everything goes ok with the scripts until I need them to write contents to a file. At this point however the file is not created. My guess is that this has something to do with file permissions, because when I run the scripts via the command line, the file is written ok. Furthermore whenever I need to edit my perl scripts in /home/httpd/cgi-bin/... I need to go into superuser mode in order to save changes.

Ah, big clue there...

What permissions do I need to set on the scripts and directory containing them in order for the scripts to create and write to files? Do I need to chmod anything or chown particular files, e.g. something like 'chown www script.pl'? Or is the problem in the default apache configuration which comes with Redhat 6. I have already chmoded the scripts so they have read, write and execute permissions.

That rather depends on what you want executing them. PERL AFAIK will execute things using the ownership/group permissions of whatever ran the PERL script itself, be that your or, say, the webserver. If the thing running the PERL script (i.e. you) doesn't have permission to create a file in the directory, then neither will PERL. If the PERL script is being run by the webserver when you're having problems, then make sure the webserver is running in the right user/group (in httpd.conf this can be set), a better way though is just to modify the target directory to allow write access from nobody.nobody (or whatever user.group your webserver runs as). I *hope* I've read your message right :) James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

Thanks everyone for your help. I've got the perl scripts writing to files now. I looked in the apache configuration file and found the server was running as userid - nobody, group - nobody. I chowned the directory containing the perl scripts to nobody:nobody and now it runs fine. Thanks again for your help. See you all on Sunday. Ashley Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD Email: ashley_t_howes@dial.pipex.com Web: http://www.ydu09.dial.pipex.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness" [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]