[Zope] How? ZServer + PCGI

[Alex Rice]

Yes, sure enough, if I chown the .select-trigger.X file which appears in
/tmp,  I get no errors.

Thanks Amos, Jeff!

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:56:36 -0700,
Amos Latteier <amos@aracnet.com> said:

Amos> Alex wrote:
>> No other programs have trouble writing to /tmp. Maybe I have a stale
>> socket file in /tmp. Will clean it out. More tonight...

Amos> Jeff wrote:
>Not been keeping up with the thread (sorry), but here's a common
>scenario which often describes your symptom.
>
>1. Developers writes file to /tmp with user permissions during 
>   local testing.
>2. Application tested.  Attempt to run app as a web server 'nobody'
>   process.  Process fails due to write permission error.
>3. Developer slaps forehead.  Uses chmod or chown to change 
>   file mode/owner settings.  Time for a beer, which causes
>   developer's brain to double in power.

Amos> This sounds like the problem. I would guess that ZServer is
Amos> creating a file in /tmp as root, then changing to uid to nobody,
Amos> then it tries to write to the file in /tmp and fails.

Amos> This is going to take a little tinkering on my part to get right,
Amos> probably I'll delay writing the trigger file until after the suid.

Amos> But you should be able to test this by starting ZServer then
Amos> looking for /tmp/.select-trigger.<PID> and checking its ownership,
Amos> and manually fixing it if you feel like it.

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