| Kevin O'Sullivan wrote: |
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We've been having toruble with uploads not working and I notice that every time someone uploads to our elog the same error message appears in /var/log/syslog:
Cannot restore original GID/UID.
How can I fix thsi error? Or, perhaps more importantly, could it cause elog to "lock up" (note, it doesn't crash)?
I'm runing elog on Ubuntu kernel version 2.6.24-server.
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Probably something is wrong with the account under which you run elog. Normally (at least if you install elog from the RPM) you have an account "elog" and group "elog" under which you run elogd. You compile and install elogd under root (so that it can bind to port 80 for example), and then you put
usr = elog
grp = elog
into the configuration file. So when you start elogd, it binds to the server port, then falls down to user "elog" and gives up root privileges. If the elog account for example does not exist, you get the above error message. The only problem I see there is if elog stays as root, it can do more harmful things in case it misbehaves. |