Posted by noone on 02/23/06 04:09

Stephen wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> This really is a file permissions problem ... although I'm not sure how
> to solve it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I have a series of load balanced servers. Each of the servers is
> arranged exactly the same and handles file uploads from users as
> follows:
>
> 1) User submits file to www1 server
> 2) www1 server saves file with permissions showing user "www" is the
> owner, dir owner is the group for the file ("sg" in this case).
> 3) cron script on www1 scp's the file to www2 server.
>
> All of this works great up until the following happens ...
>
> 4) User resubmits the file to www2 server
> 5) www2 attempts to update file located on www2 server with new
> version, but cannot modify file (attempting to overwrite a file owned
> by sg/sg with a file to be owned by www/sg).
> 6) User continues to see old image, new image is not replicated
>
> Where am I going wrong here? Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> Stephen
>

what webserver/platform?

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