I think the umask environment variable is what you need on the Unix side of things.
http://www.tech-faq.com/umask.shtml Although since the mounted folder is actually a smb/cifs share, there may be other issues that complicate things. You may need to work with the Windows permissions instead/as well. Bernard On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jim Ault <[email protected]> wrote: > Basic setup is > Rev stack running a send loop in Win 2003 Server > -1- a text file is written to the C:/temp/ folder > > Rev stack running a send loop in OSX 10.5 Leopard > -2- the C:/temp/ folder is mounted as a shared drive > thus has the path /Volumes/temp/ in the OSX Finder > > Apache in OSX is serving pages in the /Users/username/Sites/ folder > The Rev stack in OSX can do RevCopy to the Sites/ folder > > however, the permissions are set to 700 vs 644 and Apache cannot read them. > (note: the files to be 'copied' do not have the same file name since they > are time stamped file names) > > To do a shell("chmod") I think I will have to do SUDO, but since this is a > continuous process, how would I handle the password? > > I know that 'root' user is dangerous, and 'www' maybe as well. > > Instead of using RevCopy, > Is there a way of setting the Apache permissions on the mounted > C:/temp/theseFilesOnly/ folder? > I don't know how to specify the mounted/shared drive for Apache. > > Any tips or help would be appreciated. > > PS. For the files that are always named the same, > put url ("file:" & pathToSitesFolder & "filename.txt") works fine since the > permissions have been set to 644. > It is just the new filenames on C:/temp/ that the permissions need to be > changed. > > Jim Ault > Las Vegas > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
