From owner-freebsd-www Mon Jul 20 16:17:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11227 for www-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:17:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11199 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from freno.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.167]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA08086; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 01:15:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by freno.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA00368; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:31:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980720123102.C29612@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:31:02 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Phillip Salzman , www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CGI disk problems References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Phillip Salzman on Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 06:05:59AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 1998-07-18 06:05:59 -0500, Phillip Salzman wrote: > > I was trying to setup a CGI script in ~/xcontest, one that writes > to the disk to log how many hits come from a certain site. > > It appears that the httpd does not allow CGI programs to write to > the disk, can we activate the feature to allow it? The httpd daemon runs with the ownership nobody. Thus, the daemon can only write in public directories like /tmp. The logfiles are in freefall:/usr/local/www/log The web statistic is at http://www.freebsd.org/statistic/freefall.html -- Wolfram Schneider http://freebsd.org/~w/