[TriLUG] When you touch it, it's STICKY...

[James Brigman]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 12:05 -0500, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > [bill at thffffpt test]# ls -al
> > total 20
> > drwxrwsr-x   2 root apache 4096 Mar 25 11:27 .
> > drwxr-x---  37 root root   4096 Mar 25 11:26 ..
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root apache    0 Mar 25 11:27 blahblah
> 
> I see one problem right away.  The parent 
> directory of test is only readable by the user
> and group root, not by anyone else.  The entire
> path to the directory must be readable by apache
> for apache to be able to get to it.

Details, schmeetails. From the original email message:

>>is there a way to set it so that every file in this folder, the
>>var/www/html, is set to the appache group with read and execute
>>turned on?

This would already be the case for /var/www/html. And you know I didn't
make this quote up: there's a missing "/" and "apache" is
misspelled. :-)

My greater crime was running the test case as root. I'll turn myself in
to the Linux Filesystem Hygiene Police after I finish lunch. 

JKB