Hi Jason You are right! I checked it out with a temp directory and played with the permissions.
Thanks a bunch! Tony Frasketi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > No, a user needs execute permission on a directory in order to traverse > it (i.e., list the contents). > > -- > Jason Santos > Sr. Unix System Administrator > APS/Pinnacle West > Phoenix, AZ USA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Frasketi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:13 PM > To: Bob Showalter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Problem with the Unix 'du' command via perl script > > Hi Bob > Thanks for the response. I checked the system error log and didn't find > any Permission Denied errors for the directory in question (xxxtemp). > > Below is a listing of the directory which contains the offending > subdirectory 'xxxtemp'. 'xxxtemp' was an older version of subdirectory > 'temp'. There is a difference in the permissions, however. But the web > server should have been able to read 'xxxtemp' since the world has > 'read' permission. Is this not correct? > > drwxr-xr-x 3 tonysf bbsuser 512 Oct 27 2002 temp > drwxrw-rw- 3 tonysf bbsuser 512 Oct 27 2002 xxxtemp > > ========= > total 1282 > drwxr-xr-x 6 tonysf bbsuser 1024 Jun 17 14:53 . > drwxr-xr-x 31 tonysf bbsuser 2560 Jun 14 19:34 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 182 Apr 14 14:48 .htaccess > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 176 Nov 11 2002 .xxxhtaccess > drwxrwxrwx 2 tonysf bbsuser 2048 Oct 23 2002 database_saves > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 3785 Oct 28 2002 dbi_subs.cgi > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 263 Nov 11 2002 index.htm > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 625 Oct 18 2002 > msql_create_template.txt > drwxr-xr-x 2 tonysf bbsuser 512 Dec 22 2001 new > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 1072226 Oct 19 2002 > plist20021019_161002.dump > -rw-rw-rw- 1 tonysf bbsuser 8 Jan 2 2002 plist_output.txt > -rwxr-xr-x 1 tonysf bbsuser 50067 Aug 18 2002 plistmaint.cgi > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 21989 Aug 18 2002 plistmaint.pl > -rwxr-xr-x 1 tonysf bbsuser 46883 Dec 25 2001 > plistmaint_save_old.cgi > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 1870 Oct 2 2000 > plistmaint_test.dump > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 0 Jun 17 14:53 print.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 1004 Dec 31 2001 stats.htm > drwxr-xr-x 3 tonysf bbsuser 512 Oct 27 2002 temp > -rwxr-xr-x 1 tonysf bbsuser 18608 Oct 22 2002 test1.cgi > -rw-r--r-- 1 tonysf bbsuser 1901 Jan 2 2002 test1.txt > -rwxr-xr-x 1 tonysf bbsuser 17691 Oct 22 2002 test1_save.cgi > -rwxr-xr-x 1 tonysf bbsuser 481 Aug 18 2002 test2.cgi > drwxrw-rw- 3 tonysf bbsuser 512 Oct 27 2002 xxxtemp > -rwxr-xr-x 1 tonysf bbsuser 48415 Dec 26 2001 > xxxxplistmaint.cgi > > =================== > Bob Showalter wrote: > > > > Tony Frasketi wrote: > > > Thanks for all the suggestions folks! > > > > > > I had been trying to find the size of my entire web site by using > > > the 'du -sb <my-home-directory>' command in a Perl script to be > > > executed from the Web. > > > > > > But I kept coming up with a diffence of 2,177,024 bytes between the > > > output of the 'du' command when executed from the Perl script from > > > the Web and when executed directly from the Unix command line. > > > > > > Output from 'su -sb' command from Perl script on Web: > > > 83,250,176 bytes Output from 'su -sb' command from Unix Cmd Line: > > > > 85,427,200 Bytes > > > > > > 2,177,024 bytes short from the Perl script. > > > > > > I finally found the culprit that was causing the difference! I > > > tracked this exact byte difference to a particular directory buried > > > in the depths of my cgbin directory (it was an old directory that I > > > no longer use). > > > > > > The size of this directory was 2,177,024 bytes from the output of > > > the 'du' command when issued from the Unix command line BUT ... was > > > ZERO bytes from the output of the 'du' command when issued from the > > > Perl script on the Web! > > > > > > After I deleted this directory, the sizes of my entire website > > > matched when measured from the Web or from the Unix shell!!! > > > > The directory was probably not readable by the web server user. If you > > > check your web server error logs, you'll probably see a "Permission > > denied" message coming from du. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
