Re: Running pyblosxom as user script causes internal server error

You should check your Apache error logs.  But, I'm pretty sure Python 
won't allow you to run scripts with a setuid bit on and will error out if 
you try.

/will


On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Bala B K wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>       I have just started using pyblosxom. It is running on a sun server 
> running solaris 5.8, Apache-SSL-US/1.1.1+1.2+1.3b3-dev. Recently, my 
> blog had some comment spam and I had to disable comments completely. 
> Worse, to get rid of the problematic comments I had to ask the sysadmin 
> as the comments were owned by user "www" and I couldn't delete them. I 
> tried including a line in the comments plugins to change the permission 
> of the files created to 777, but that didn't work. So, I tried doing a 
> **chmod u+s pyblosxom.cgi** so that the executable would run in my name. 
> But that gives rise to HTTP error 500 (internal server error). Please 
> help.
>
> Thanks,
> Bala.


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