On Fri, November 3, 2006 12:45 am, John.H wrote: > My php program whose owner is root: > > <? > mkdir('test',0777); > ?> > > and the folder 'test' 's owner is 'nobody'? > why?should the folder belong to 'root' too? > By the way,the safe mode is turned on. I believe that the umask and other OS settings may also affect who ends up owning a file created by 'root'... http://php.net/umask You're running this as CLI, right?... Cuz if you are running your web server as root, shut it down NOW. :-) (Anybody reading this who is running their server as root and actually knows what they are doing: You ain't the one asking the above question, now, are you?...) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php