The way that I understand it is that we have an afs account over here, and a
server over there. We want to run our cgi scripts in the afs account, but
write to the tmp directory on the server. Does that make more sense?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nichole Bialczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: i'm warning you, this is a toughie!
> At 05:00 PM 6/4/01 -0500, Nichole Bialczyk wrote:
> >The difference is that in Unix, I have admin permissions and the web
> >server is anyuser. I thought that my making everything 777, it would
> >solve it. I'm not as familiar with Unix as I'd like to be. I know how to
> >do ACL permissions in afs, but I don't know Unix.
>
> Well the usual issue with web scripts on AFS is that you need a token to
> write to a directory and a CGI process won't have one unless it uses a
> srvtab file. AFS users who want to write cron jobs learn that one real
> fast. Unix file permissions don't make hardly any difference on AFS.
>
> But you indicated that you couldn't write to /tmp. That's bizarre,
because
> /tmp isn't part of AFS, at least not on one I've seen.
>
> I think we're going to need more help. You might also need to ask the
> info-afs list.
> --
> Peter Scott
> Pacific Systems Design Technologies
> http://www.perldebugged.com
>
>
