Niko Tyni wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:29:29AM -0200, Edinilson J. Santos wrote: > >>After upgrade from version 2.0.3 on a Freebsd 4.8 to version 2.0.5 on a >>Freebsd 6.0 I'm having the following problem calling smokeping.cgi: >> >>Software error: >>ERROR: calling stat on /usr/local/etc/smokeping/config: Permission denied >>For help, please send mail to the webmaster, giving this error message and >>the time and date of the error > > The user that the CGI runs as does not have privileges (the 'x' bit) to > access the /usr/local/etc/smokeping directory (or one of its parents).
This could be caused by the upgrade being run with a more restrictive umask than the default (0022). Normally, all directories from /usr/local/etc/smokeping and up are 'drwxr-xr-x'. > I don't know if FreeBSD uses ACLs; if it does, that may complicate this > a bit. FreeBSD 5.0 and later does support ACLs, but this is not enabled by default. /Lars -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
