Thanks for the advice I have looked at the items you mentioned - details in body of reply
On 12 Jun 2003 at 8:20, drieux wrote: > > On Thursday, Jun 12, 2003, at 04:01 US/Pacific, Eugene Geldenhuys > wrote: [..] > I have a small problem after upgrading a system from > RH6.0 to RH9.0, my > apache web server went from version 1.3.6 to > version 2.0.40. This in > itself > is probably a good thing, but a > system management utility I wrote in > perl > now will not execute > system binaries unless I mark them srwxr-xr-x. [..] > > p0: did you do a 'cold upgrade' without bit twiddling > either the perl or the apache code? > Yes > p1: when you su to root and do > > suexec -V > > does the > > -D AP_DOC_ROOT="/var/www" > > value point to where you have your DOCUMENT_ROOT > rigged to work, normally the default value in > the httpd.conf is something like > > DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" > > hence you should be able to hang any of your stuff > that needs to be suexec'd in that path.... I have > my Virtual Hosts off say in > > /var/www/<virtualHostNameHere> > Yes, I added the virtual host and aliased cgi-bin to the appropriate folder > p2: you do understand that you will need the command > > SuexecUserGroup <user> <group> > > in your 'virtual host' directives.... vice the older > apache 1.3.x versions where it was > > User <uname> > Group <group> > Yes, this is configured > p3: the executable - perl code - is actually owned > by the user/group that will be executing it? > Yes, I changed it accordingly > p4: we basically agree that you should NOT need to > have the setuid bit set on the executable... Great, but I still have the problem if I don't > > p5: have you any interesting information from the suexec.log > that can help you sort out what it is whining about? > No, no information here. suexec -V gives: -D AP_DOC_ROOT="/var/www" -D AP_GID_MIN=500 -D AP_HTTPD_USER="apache" -D AP_LOG_EXEC="/var/log/httpd/suexec.log" -D AP_SAFE_PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" -D AP_UID_MIN=500 -D AP_USERDIR_SUFFIX="public_html" I configured symlinks to the binaries from /usr/bin - no joy, I copied the binaries to /usr/bin, no joy, what am I missing? Best Regards Eugene Geldenhuys MCNE ECNE MCSE MCP TFX SOLUTIONS - PROFESSIONAL NETWORK DESIGN ,IMPLEMENTATION AND SUPPORT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
