I understand that, the thing is that it _is_ deleting files owned
exclusively by root.
The only thing I can figure is that I happen to be a www client on the first
apache process. "ps aux":
<snip>
root 204 0.0 0.1 2240 1288 ttyp0 S Jun16 0:00 -bash
root 15892 0.0 0.5 6920 4320 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start <--that right there
apache 15905 0.0 0.6 7104 4800 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
apache 15906 0.0 0.6 7152 4808 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
apache 15907 0.0 0.6 7028 4700 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
apache 15908 0.0 0.6 7088 4784 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
apache 15909 0.0 0.6 7012 4652 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
apache 15911 0.0 0.6 7164 4944 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
apache 15912 0.0 0.6 7104 4768 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
apache 15913 0.0 0.6 7152 4800 ? S Jun16 0:00
/usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
root 16499 0.0 0.1 2588 792 ttyp0 R 09:59 0:00 ps aux
</snip>
Can you see what I'm thinking? I don't know if my hypothesis is sound,
I don't know that much about how apache actually "thinks".
Thanks,
Jake
"Adam Voigt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> You can start apache with "apachectl start" as root just fine,
> you don't need to su to the apache user. And you must be
> mis-understanding the permissions or something cause if you
> do infact have apache running as a seperate user, there's no
> way it can delete a file owned by root unless maybe the user
> it's running as is in the root group.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:47, Jacob Marble wrote:
> > Hey all-
> > I'm writing some PHP scripts that have the ability to delete,
rename,
> > upload, etc. files to the webserver. It's a simple on-line file manager
for
> > some family members.
> > The question: I don't want to allow apache to delete certain files,
> > specifically files that are owned by root. But it can. I made a simple
> > phpinfo.php file and I can delete it with this file manager. I don't
think
> > it ought to, since it's run as user nobody (httpd.conf setting). I've
tried
> > changing the setting in httpd.conf to a new user called apache, still no
> > good.
> > Doing a "ps aux" from the bash prompt says that apache has about 6
or 8
> > processes, the first of which is being run as root; the rest are apache
(or
> > nobody, depending on the httpd.conf setting). To remedy this, I stopped
> > apache and then restarted it with:
> > su -c "/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start" apache
> > It wouldn't start, complaining that it couldn't access the log file.
> > I've tried chown'ing the inaccessable files, I've tried doing my make
> > install as user apache, all did no good.
> > Does anyone know a good solution to this problem? How to get apache
to
> > run completely as a user other than root?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jake
> >
> > LandEZ
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> Adam Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Linux/Unix Network Administrator
> The Cryptocomm Group
>
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