Question

Hi,I encountered a problem with cache.db. I've set

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/twiki

[abc@xyz LdapContrib]$ pwd
/var/www/twiki/pub/_work_areas/LdapContrib
[abc@xyz LdapContrib]$ ls -l
total 1124 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1396736 Apr 30 11:00 cache.db

Software error:
Cannot open file /var/www/twiki/pub/_work_areas/LdapContrib/cache.db: Permission denied at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/LdapContrib.pm line 543.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. 

I chown of cache.db to apache,but over a period of time,it's owner turned to be "root" again.

I guess a setting for email notification in /etc/crontab may affect this issue,because I received email from /var/spool/mail/root

Subject: Cron <root@localhost> perl -I /var/www/twiki/bin /var/www/twiki/tools/mailnotify 
........
constructed a new LdapContrib object
cacheAge=86978, lastUpdate=1245687855, refresh=1
updating cache
called refreshCache
called refreshUsersCache()
found 500 entries
.....
........................

I don't know why the owner of cache.db changed to be root and cause the error in browser.

Please help if you can,thanks in advance!

Environment

-- ZhouXuan - 30 Apr 2008

Answer

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Maybe caused by crontab,change owner to apache

*/15 * * * * apache perl I /var/www/twiki/bin /var/www/twiki/tools/mailnotify

-- ZhouXuan - 07 May 2008

Better don't run any TWiki cronjobs as root, last but not least for security reasons. Remove this line from /etc/crontab and add it to the one of the user apache to make sure it is run as apache, not root

-- MichaelDaum - 07 May 2008