YaBB on Unix Shell :/

[Dataforce]

I recently installed YaBB on my unix shell, and (after a while ) got it working, but when ever I download a yabbpak, it chown's it to nobody, therefore I can't actually do nething with it :/

has any1 got a fix for this ?

[Mr.Sins]

what user does your http server use.
which http server do you use.

normaly the file uploaded get the same user id as the http servers proces name.

[ajk]

The same thing happens on FreeBSD.

I would just go to the command line if you have SU access.  Then repair it manually.

Most UNIX uses usergroup.username to show ownership.  Most Linux distributions use www.username.

What version of UNIX / Linux are you using?

[Mr.Sins]

i'm using suse 8.1 and on an other box i run redhat 7.1

btw you could put a script in your cron, that chmod or chown the files every 5 min.

this way you shouldn't have to do it manualy each time.

[ajk]

I'm sure you could call CRON to run a script easily.
But why would you want to?  If your FTP is set correctly,
you should not have to change the usergroup.username.

If you really want to do that, I'd write a script in your /etc/rc.d startup files.

You should really only have to run the script after you install programs.

Let me look at the YaBB script again.  I'm not an expert.
Maybe I can see what line calls the own info.

[Mr.Sins]

he says when download something with the ypcenter that it has user nobody.

since you downloaded this through ypcenter actualy your apache server download this, so the OS will give the users id of the apache server to the files.

if you apache server runs with the wrong user id or is misconfigured you can get this problem

my runs userid wwwrun en group nobody
so everytime i download a file it gets the usersid wwwrun and group nobody.

so if your umask is set correctly, your apache server would be able to read its own files

[Mr.Sins]

if you don't download this through the yabbpack center then you would indeed need to chmod the files manualy.

or set the correct umask for your ftp user id

[ajk]

I have control over my httpd.conf.  Most Linux distros set Apache to run as it's own user and own group.  If you ever looked at the command line, here is what you would see:

-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  67316 Dec 28 13:19 httpd.conf

In my case as you can see, the root user and wheel group has ownersip to Apache.  In Linux:

-rw-r--r--   1 www www 67316 Dec 28 13:19 httpd.conf

www is the user and group that run Apache.

Therefore, if you don't have total control on the server, you'd have to ask your admin to change it to the correct user and group.  A cron job would be sensceless if it is not your box.