[PHP-DB] Re: www-data file

2014-08-26 Thread Jim Giner
On 8/26/2014 12:20 AM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear list - When I use fopen, the file owner and group are both www-data. How can I ensure that the owner and group will be ethan? TIA Ethan Why should ownership be a concern when you are simply opening a file? AFAIK permissions are set at

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: www-data file

2014-08-26 Thread Matt Pelmear
On 08/26/2014 06:21 AM, Jim Giner wrote: On 8/26/2014 12:20 AM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear list - When I use fopen, the file owner and group are both www-data. How can I ensure that the owner and group will be ethan? TIA Ethan Why should ownership be a concern when you are simply

Re: [PHP-DB] www-data file

2014-08-26 Thread Jasper Kips
What are you trying to achieve? Or to put it more clearly, why do you need the filw owner to be ethan? Jasper Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad Op 26 aug. 2014 om 06:20 heeft Ethan Rosenberg erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com het volgende geschreven: Dear list - When I use fopen, the file

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: www-data file

2014-08-26 Thread Jim Giner
On 8/26/2014 11:26 AM, Matt Pelmear wrote: fopen() can create files if they don't exist. I should have read the manual b4 replying. :( -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP-DB] Writing Problems

2014-08-26 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List - I can't figure this one out. 1] Straighten out ownership ethan@meow:/var/www$ rm receipt.txt ethan@meow:/var/www$ touch receipt.txt ethan@meow:/var/www$ ls -l receipt.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 ethan ethan 0 Aug 26 19:31 receipt.txt ethan@meow:/var/www$ chmod 766 receipt.txt

Re: [PHP-DB] Writing Problems

2014-08-26 Thread Matt Pelmear
Do you check whether $fh2 is a resource after you fopen()? btw, a better way than: $ chown ethan:ethan filename.txt Might be: $ chown ethan:www-data filename.txt $ chmod 664 filename.txt This way you own the file, the server can write to it (assuming your server has group www-data), and it is