[fw-general] Lucene index permissions

[Nathan Wright]

Hi all,

I have an index that's generated and queried by Apache's 'nobody'  
user (which works well), but I'm having trouble updating it from a  
cron job.

There is a JIRA issue on this subject (JIRA's currently down so no  
link), but the workaround solution someone posted wasn't much help.  
It actually made the indexes inaccessible to both Apache & the cron  
job after the initial index creation. (Can't post the code as this  
attempt was some time ago, but I followed that example code *exactly*.)

Maybe I need to route the cron job through apache so that the index  
is being accessed by the same user? I'm not sure how this would work  
though.

I'm not so brilliant when it comes to this sort of *nix issue, so any  
help would be most appreciated.

Cheers,
ncw