Upload permissions strange?

BenSeb

We have a script which uploads images, then creates a new subfolder and moves the images to this folder.

Structure is:

gallery
--->albums rwxrwx--- myuser mygroup
------->191 rwxrwx--- myuser mygroup

now apache runs as 'apache' which is part of mygroup
php runs as myuser in mygroup.

The problem we have is that we can send several patchnes of images up. some images are created with rwxrwx--- and some created with rw-r--r-- or similar permissions

A new directory in albums is also created as rw-r--r-- but shouldnt it inherit the rwxrwx--- fronm it's parent albums folder?

this seems a bit random (we can refresh the script 3 times with different results) - the only thing i can think that has changes (since it always worked perfectly) is that weve upgraded to php 4.3.11 from 4.3.10

bradgrafelman

You mean you can run the same script, delete a newly created directory, run it again (untouched), and it produces a directory with different permissions (variably) ??

Well that's rather odd.

I don't know about a fix for that, as the cause boggles me, but a workaround might be to [man]chmod[/man] (not that you need the manual entry for explanation if your a *nix guru) the directory after creation in the script, so the permissions will end up the same regardless of what they originally were after the script randomly set them :p

BenSeb

After a bit more investigation, I created a page with

echo umask();

on it

If i refresh, the value changes between 18 (seems ok) and 63 (thats a bit high!)

Any idea why this value would fluctuate?

BenSeb

Hi guys

Any ideas about the mysterious changing umask values? I'm stuck!!?

Ben