On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:09:06PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:27:39PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > > bookmarks into a nice HTML page with search facility. It works as a CGI script but > > that means that it need to be able to see your bookmarks file. It works when I >have set: > > drwx--x--x 5 mikel mikel 664 Apr 1 11:51 .netscape > > -rw-r--r-- 1 mikel mikel 117660 Apr 1 11:41 .netscape/bookmarks.html > > but when you fire up Netscape after a short while the permissions get changed back > > to what Netscape wants to: > > drwx------ 5 mikel mikel 656 Apr 1 11:49 .netscape > > -rw------- 1 mikel mikel 117660 Apr 1 11:41 .netscape/bookmarks.html > You have three options, in descending order of preference: > a) switch to a capital-F-Free browser, such as Konqueror (much better in > KDE3), or Galeon I like Netscape even though it's owned by AOL :-)
> b) have the CGI script run as mikel, in which case it will have > permission Thats an idea, thanks. But how does one get a specific cgi script to to run as a user other than what is specified in the http.conf file. Apache starts the cgi script running as wwwrun when it gets invoked. > c) hack the Netscape binary to not do that No thanks :-) -- If you want to find my email address then squash the bug :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
