Posted by Andy Jeffries on 02/23/06 13:03

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:07:24 -0800, Stephen wrote:
> Forgot to point out how the cron job (actually a PHP script) runs ...
>
> 3a) cron executes scp -p origfile sg@www2:destfile 3b) destfile appears on
> www2 with ownership sg/sg, same permissions as origfile

So can't you chown the origfile to nobody/www (i.e. nobody:sg or
www:sg, depending on which you use) after scping with cron? That way it
will be owned by nobody/www and the web server will be able to overwrite
it.

Cheers,


Andy

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