RE: [cobalt-users] permission denied during ftp

["Bob Coomes" <bcoomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jamie Martino
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 12:57 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] permission denied during ftp

* Although I went ahead and tried some stuff on my own before I heard from
> you, the info you posted shed some light on what I thought were some
pretty
> weird things.  I can't imagine a reason for only allowing administrator
> rights on the first 32 sties.

Ok, this was weird, when this problem happened to me, the first 32 sites I
setup, I had used the "Admin" account to ftp all files for each of the 32
sites..  Well, after I passed that mark, my "Admin" was unable to upload to
*any* site except it's own personal web space..  Now, that much I didn't
really matter, I just setup 1 "Site Admin" for everyone of our sites and
saved each on in my FTP address book..  What did bother me was just the
other day I discovered that CGI scripts weren't being run on any of the
first 32 sites transferred to the box because they were owned by "Admin" and
cgi-wrap kept saying "Permission Denied".  The only way I was able to get it
to work again was to go in, delete all files and directories in the web
folder for each site and then re-upload them as the "Site Admin" for each
site..  I suppose I could've just shut off CGI-Wrap, but oh well..  Just a
thought, you might want to check your CGI scripts now that you've passed the
32 mark...  Also for some reason, chown-ing the files to the "Site Admin"
didn't work..  I have no idea why..  Any thoughts anyone?

-Jamie-
http://w-c.net
WebConnection.Net, Inc.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane...

I was able to use chown -R site_admin siteX.  Did you use the -R switch?

Bob Coomes