On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:13:39AM -0700, M E Fieu wrote: > How to settle this issue. Use apache to run cron job > to generate those file ? But my apache user account > has no shell configured. /bin/nologin I need to > enable its shell ? Make a group named "mysecret". Put apache in that group -- `gpasswd mysecret -a apache`, and create a non-privileged user account and put that in same group, and have that user run the cron job and make the data mode 640 (That's "-rw-r-----"). And restart apache. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit.