On Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:01:04 David Baldwin wrote:
Neil Franken wrote:
Hi Quick Follow up.
I checked the hobbit-nkview.cfg, hobbit-nkview.cfg.bak files and I found a xymon-nkview.cfg.bak. All remain empty and according to the man pages this is where the critical systems should be written to. SO I think I have a permissions issue. I checked the permissions of the files and the hobbit-nkview files belong to root and the group is also root they have the 664 permissions applied. The xymon-nkview.cfg.bak belongs to root and the group is apache. I am getting a little confused now and not sure how to solve this problem.
Hope someone out there has a idea.
Quite obviously, the user running the CGI needs to be able to write to the file. The appropriate permissions fix is one of:
apache:xymon 640 xymon:apache 660 root:apache 664
On my system those files are writeable by the hobbit user and group. Not sure if suexec is required in apache to make this work. First pass you could make permissions 777.
IMHO, no one should *ever* suggest 777 as a fix ...
Regards, Buchan