[mapserver-users] Re: Mapserver /tmp files appearing all of a sudden w/CONTEXT parameter used

[Daniel Morissette]

I didn't read all your posts, but this sounds like it may be related to 
some changes/fixes made to the handling of temporary files in v6.0.x:

See:

http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-66.html

and

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3354#comment:6

Sounds like the docs may need an update about this. And I'm not sure if 
the RFC outlines the final behavior properly. Alan, Assefa, can you 
please create a doc ticket outlining the exact behavior resulting from 
your changes?


On 11-11-24 11:25 AM, myOpenLayersUName wrote:
> With respect to this problem of writing to the /tmp, rather than our
> /ogc_tmp/ (IMAGEPATH) directory, one thing we have just tried though that is
> interesting...
>
> I mentioned earlier we were upgrading from 5.4 (I mis-spoke when I said 5.6)
> to 6.0.1. As we still have both executables available on the same machine,
> we tried switching them and making the same URL request. When the executable
> is 5.4, the *.context.xml is written to /ogc_tmp/ but when the executable is
> 6.0.1, it is /tmp. For this particular functionality (the copying of the
> WMC's contents), could there be an error reading the IMAGEPATH variable in
> the code? My debugging capabilities in this particular environment are
> visual only (just eyeballing the code and trying to find my way through it).
> I can't actually step through the code at run time to see the value being
> read when trying to put together the path for where to put the file but it's
> the only thing I can think of that might explain what we're seeing.
>
> Does anyone know if this is a valid possibility?
>
> Steve, Thank you for your response. To answer your questions specifically,
> we do not set IMAGEPATH and/or IMAGEURL in the Apache config files; only in
> the map files. To be certain, though, I verified this again this morning.
> With respect to the permissions, the Mapserver user doesn't have log on
> permissions in this environment, so I can't get a shell as that user.
> However, I checked the permissions for the folder and they include o+rwx. I
> would think that should allow Mapserver to write to it.
>
> Cheers,
> jtm
>
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