Re: [cobalt-users] IPO?

["Greg Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I called twice the other day and someone actually answered...

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>From: "Service" <service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [cobalt-users] IPO?
>Date: Tue, Dec 14, 1999, 5:27 PM
>

> What's the deal? You'd think they would have raised enough money to hire a
> few more tech support people. I've been trying to get through today, finally
> did and was told someone would get back to me within an hour. It's been over
> an hour and when I call back I get a recording asking me to leave a message
> and someone will get back to me.
>
> Has anyone had a positive experience with Cobalt support???
>
> Larry Frank
> Expert Consulting, LLC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John P. Cuprisin
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 4:25 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] [Raq2-users] HTTPD User
>
>
> I also am having this problem and it is affecting my Miva Merchant
> operation to the extent that it is causing me to go think of going
> back to a standard Unix server. The problem occurs when the database
> is packed, all of the file ownership and permissions are changed to
> nobody.nobody chmod 500. I believe that is because the apache is set
> to user and group nobody, but why the permission change. That change
> makes the databases unavailable to the store functions. They must be
> set to the site's ownership and read/write by all. If I change the
> site's ownership to nobody.nobody then the user of that site can't
> access their own files for maintenance. I have these setups on
> non-cobalt servers and this does not occur. There are many other
> instances of changes in other cgi files and again only on the cobalt.
> I have written a script to change them back to the desired state but
> this is a real pain....Unix BSDI and FreeBSD doesn't do this!
>
> John
> JCSolutions
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Euliano
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 3:40 PM
>>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [cobalt-users] [Raq2-users] HTTPD User
>>
>>
>>I have several linux boxes and only on my Raq2 does this
>>particular event
>>take place.  I've been told that it is "normal for linux" to
>>do this by
>>some people at Cobalt... but I find it odd that it ONLY
>>happens on my Raq2
>>and not my other linux machines.
>>
>>Many of my web page html files and also several of my cgi
>>script files are
>>having their permissions altered.  Regardless of who created
>>the file or
>>what site group they were in, the files are being changed to
>>owner: HTTPD
>>and group: USERS.
>>
>>At first it was no big deal... because I could just log in
>>as root and
>>change them back.  But now it is beginning to interfere with
>>the operation
>>of my scripts as they require certain permission settings,
>>and when they
>>change to uid: HTTPD, the script can no longer access the
>>file because it
>>doesn't have rights.  Short of setting every file on my
>>machine +777, what
>>can I do to ensure this doesn't happen any more.
>>
>>Also, is there a reason why this IS happenning???  Maybe if
>>I could see
>>some positive benefit for this happenning, I wouldn't be so
>>adament towards
>>stopping it.
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>
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