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susan_cassidy · 11-24-2011, 07:20 PM

Web servers typically don't run as root, so perhaps a file needs to be overwritten that is owned by root, or something? Can you su to the user that the web server runs as, and then try running the command from the command-line that the web form submission runs?

11-24-2011, 07:20 PM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	Web servers typically don't run as root, so perhaps a file needs to be overwritten that is owned by root, or something? Can you su to the user that the web server runs as, and then try running the command from the command-line that the web form submission runs?