Since the user Apache is running as created the file, it owns it too. Make a quick PHP script to delete the files when ready.
HTH, Peter Janett New Media One Web Services ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Upgrades Are Now Live!!! Windows 2000 accounts - Cold Fusion 5.0 and Imail 7.1 Sun Solaris (UNIX) accounts - PHP 4.1.2, mod_perl/1.25, Stronghold/3.0 (Apache/1.3.22), MySQL 3.23.43 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PostgreSQL coming soon! http://www.newmediaone.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (303)828-9882 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenn Murrah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "php list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: [PHP] controlling ownership on file uploads ... > Greetings. > > I've written a simple form to allow my clients to upload files to me, and it > works fine EXCEPT that the uploaded file is owned by "www" and I while I can > read the file, I don't have the necessary permissions to delete it when done > ... > > Since this site is being hosted elsewhere, is there a way I can control > ownership so that I can delete the file? I've written my ISP/web hoster and > received no response -- usually that's their subtle way of telling me I > should ask the PHP quiestion here :-) > > Any and all help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > kenn > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
