Re: [cobalt-developers] (no subject)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Accounts wrote:

> Yes, I checked and root does own the file.  Why are files owned by root
> restricted despite the rwxr-x-r-x permissions? Who should I chown the file
> to for it to be accessible?  Sorry, I'm still new to this.

The file should be marked executable and owned by the siteadmin for the
site.

The RaQs run cgi programs using a cgi-wrapper.

> Also this does not seem to be a problem outside the cgi-bin.  What special
> characteristics does a directory named 'cgi-bin' have as opposed to any
> other directory (I always thought that 'cgi-bin' was just a naming
> convention).

"cgi-bin" may be aliased to somewhere else.  Personally I use
"cgi-local".

Jeff
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