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Hi there,

I have a strange issue with hiawatha and the latest FreeBSD 8.1. Never have I come accross this behavior before with hiawatha.

For some reason, each time I start hiawatha the root level directory (/opt) changes ownership to hiawatha user and group and access rights are given to hiawatha only, no group access nor everyone.

To elaborate the issue a little;
1) I normally change the configure.ac to place the hiawatha.conf file to /opt/hiawatha/etc instead of /opt/hiawatha/etc/hiawahta.
2) I compile the hiawatha from sources with ./configure --prefix=/opt/hiawatha --disable-xslt -disable-monitor.
3) I use my old rc script to startup hiawatha normally from /opt/hiawahta/sbin directory ( the rc script does not modify the opt directory acl)
4) Once hiawahta is started, the owner of the /opt directory becomes wwwuser and the group changes to wwwuser with acl: drwx------; ie. access rights are given to only wwwuser and I need to manually change it to support other applications and groups under /opt directory.

This possessive behavior is so weird that I needed to write it here as a possible bug..

Any ideas

Regards,
Peter



Hiawatha version: 7.3
Operating System: FreeBSD 8.1

The only directory Hiawatha changes the ownership of is the WorkDirectory (needed to store temporary files for PUT requests). What is the value of your WorkDirectory setting?

Hi Hugo,

Problem solved - I did not know that Hiawatha changed the access rights - nor did I notice that my working directory was set to opt

Thanks for your help,

Peter