[rt-users] mason_data dir contents owned by root

[Asif Iqbal]

root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# ls -al
total 4
drwxrwx--- 4 www-data www-data 1024 2011-05-25 17:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root     root     1024 2011-05-20 12:42 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root     1024 2011-05-25 17:21 cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root     1024 2011-05-25 17:21 obj
I need help to find out why mason_data/{cache,obj} are owned by root.
I removed the dirs and restarted apache2 and they come back with root
as the owner

root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
 * Stopping web server apache2
                                          ... waiting ...........

    [ OK ]
root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# ls -al
total 4
drwxrwx--- 4 www-data www-data 1024 2011-05-25 17:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root     root     1024 2011-05-20 12:42 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root     1024 2011-05-25 17:21 cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root     1024 2011-05-25 17:21 obj
root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# rm -rf cache obj
root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# ls -al
total 2
drwxrwx--- 2 www-data www-data 1024 2011-05-26 11:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root     root     1024 2011-05-20 12:42 ..
root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
 * Starting web server apache2
                                  [ OK ]
root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# ls -al
total 4
drwxrwx--- 4 www-data www-data 1024 2011-05-26 11:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root     root     1024 2011-05-20 12:42 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root     1024 2011-05-26 11:34 cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root     1024 2011-05-26 11:34 obj
root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# ps -ef | grep apache2
root      2192     1 27 11:34 ?        00:00:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  2195  2192  0 11:34 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root      2198  1367  0 11:34 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto apache2
root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data# ps -ef | grep apache2
root      2192     1 20 11:34 ?        00:00:05 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  2195  2192  0 11:34 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  2199  2192  2 11:34 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  2200  2192  2 11:34 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root      2256  1367  0 11:34 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto apache2
root at lucid:/opt/rt4/var/mason_data#


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