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Re: CGI and Perl

Posted by Weasel on 1999-03-20

>Its due to the way they have their permissions setup for user
>accounts. The perl program is run as nobody or as www or httpd, and
>tries to write to a directory owned by you, and so it does not have
>the permission to create the file properly.
>
If you have telnet/ssh .... access to that mashine you can try to chgrp the
files to the httpd-user (whatever it is called) and change the permissions
to 770, 660 or whatever you prefer. it should work then. at least it did for
me once.

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Weasel