Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Permissions correct on profile.dat in "live"?

[Peter H. <ha...@sw...>]

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- --On March 31, 2006 11:17:52 -0700 Tristan RHODES <Tri...@we...> wrote:

| I have installed nfsen 1.2.4 and nfdump 1.5.  I tried to edit the
| maximum size of the live profile from the web.  However, I got an error
| saying I didn't have permission to do this.  I looked at the profile.dat
| file in live, and it was owned by root:root.  The other profiles I
| created were owned by apache:apache.  I did a chown apache:apache
| /var/nfsen/profiles/live/profile.dat and I could edit the live profile
| from the webpage.
|
| Is this a feature, or should it be changed?  It appears the profile.dat
| file is owned by whoever ran ./install.pl.  Is there a way to know the
| correct web user?  Some distros it is www-data and some use apache.

You did everything right! It's a know first-time installation bug, but should not
harm, due to file mask. Anyway it's fixed in new installer.

    - Peter
|
| Tristan Rhodes
|
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