Thanks for the help.

It is in fact a selinux problem.

I may not pursue the issue any further,  because  I may be dropping the whole 
project for other reasons.



On Wednesday 22 November 2006 5:28 pm, Valery Reznic wrote:
> You may need to set selinux attribute (with chcon) for
> the file you are about to open.
> If you are open file for writing you
> may want to use 'httpd_sys_script_rw_t' on both file
> and it's parent directory, for reading -
> httpd_sys_script_ro_t for file
>
> Valery.
>
> --- Aharon Schkolnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I am trying to set up
>
> http://www.dynamicnetworks.us/netflow/10-cugrapher.html
>
> > There is a perl program which resides in
> > /var/www/cgi-bin. So far, so good.
> >
> > The program needs to open data files:
> >
> > opendir( DIR, $rrddir ) or &browserDie("open $rrddir
> > failed ($!)");
> >
> > This generates the error:
> >
> > open /var/www/data/netflow/rrds failed (Permission
> > denied)
> >
> >
> > As you can see, I have tried moving the data file
> > under the /var/www/data
> > directory. I planned to replace this with a symlink.
> >
> > I figured  the problem was in the httpd.conf file,
> > so I added the following:
> >
> > <Directory /var/www/data>
> >
> >     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
> >     AllowOverride None
> >     Order allow,deny
> >     Allow from all
> >
> > </Directory>
> >
> >
> > What else  do I need to do ?
> >
> > I am running FC 5 with selinux.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
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