SID-01328: cache.db changes to root owner after manual Plugin install

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.1	Perl version:
Category:	LdapContrib	Server OS:	SLES 11	Last update:	14 years ago

After installing a plugin manually, using the root login, the cache.db changes to the root owner and I have to change it back to the apache owner, otherwise I get the following message in the browser:

LdapContrib/cache.db: Permission denied

I have seen another Question where cron was the reason, but I do not have a cron against twiki.

-- RonMascarenhas - 2011-11-13

Discussion and Answer

Do you have any other process that is accessing TWiki as root from the shell, such as search engine or a script to push (test result, etc.) data into TWiki?

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-11-13

I don't have anything else running from root against TWiki. The only time I access TWiki from the shell is to install plugins manually, since I do not have a direct connection to the internet.

I do have one cron entry to update the twiki statistics but this happens daily without any problem

-- RonMascarenhas - 2011-11-14

I presume the statistics cron running as your webserver user?

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-11-14

This is what I have for the cron entry

@daily /opt/IBM/twiki/bin/statistics >/dev/null 2>&1

-- RonMascarenhas - 2011-11-14

Make sure this cron runs as the web server user, and not as root.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-11-14

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-- PeterThoeny - 2012-01-23

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