On Wed, 30 May 2007 22:00, you wrote: > I want to have a script updating a web page. Basically it downloads a > podcast file, amends some tags and saves it to a directory in apache's > htdocs, (and from there I have other podcast reading software read it.) > It needs to be run via cron. > > I don't want to run the script as root, but the htdocs area is all owned > by root. > > I seem to be completely clueless about how to get the script to be able > to update in the htdocs hierarchy, it could be the headache i have, or > the headache could be caused by thinking about it. I can only come up > with either changing ownership of directories inside > /var/www/localhost/htdocs (yuk) or running the script as root (yuk). > > So someone make a suggestion and save my brain.
What group owns htdocs? Can your (non-root) user be in that group, with group permissions to write to htdocs? I could be talking nonsense, but you asked for "a suggestion", not "a suggestion that works". A
