session problems

alijsh

Hi there.
I've got this problem when using sessions, though not all the time, depending on webbrowser the ration is 40-70% of the times I try.

The code looks something like this:


<?
session_start();

if (isset($_SESSION['login']))
         echo "logged in";
else
  $_SESSION['login'] = $user;
  // $user is not NULL
?>

the errorcode this generates is:
Warning: open(/tmp/sess_47999ee2643d6ff8f4329c37638ca7da, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /path/thisfile.php4 on line 2

and yes /tmp is world writeable.
and since register_globals is set to off, I shouldn't use session_register("variables") if I understand it correctly.

I've tried averything I could come up with but with no luck.
Anyone knows how to solve this, you'll be my hero.

cruz610

where are you setting the login variable?

alijsh

I'm setting it in through a form in the same file, but that's not a part of the problem.

even if I'd make it like this

<? 
session_start(); 

if (isset($_SESSION['login'])) 
         echo "logged in"; 
else 
  $_SESSION['login'] = "Elmer Fudd"; 
?>

it still generates the same error code.

LordShryku

Check the permissions on /tmp again. This error is very specific; You don't have permission to write to it. If it's 777'ed, try adding to the Apache user(usually "nobody") to the group the owns the directory.

alijsh

As I mentioned theese error messages don't show up every time, so what about all the times it works, this should imply that /tmp is alright, or?

Anyways, the permissions on /tmp are:
drwxrwxrwt 11 root sys 3.3K Dec 27 02:10 tmp/

since I'm not sysadmin on the system so I can't change the persmissions on it.

thanks for trying..