**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Aug 08 02:59:58 2012 Aug 08 04:02:39 I have a beagleboard xm and I'm using the angstrom image that come with the board. I installed apache and all dependencies and would like to build a simple web interface to turn leds on and off. I'm using python and the scripts that I have turn the leds on and off when executed in the shell but not when executing as a cgi script. If this question is better suited for the apache room please let me know. Aug 08 04:04:26 To further elaborate I can execute python script with cgi as long as it's trivial stuff like displaying print strings but when I want to open a file and write to it, it doesn't. Not certain if there is something I missed in setting apache up. Aug 08 04:23:38 sounds like a typical permission problem Aug 08 04:25:02 indeed it is. In the error log it says permission denied. The user and group are set up as daemon in httpd.conf but I'm uncertain what permissions this user and group have. Aug 08 04:25:11 That's what I was looking into right now Aug 08 04:54:08 dm8tbr: Thank you for the tip. Just to verify that it would work from a apache I change the group permissions for the trigger and brightness files for the usr0 led and it turned on. However I know this is just a sloppy hack. The original permission for the group were root and read only. Does that mean that apache has to run as root in order to have low level access? That doesn't sound correct though, would you know a good way of handling this Aug 08 04:54:08 problem? Aug 08 05:09:58 Thanks for the help bye. **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Aug 08 20:13:48 2012 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Aug 08 20:14:16 2012 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Aug 08 20:41:31 2012 **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Aug 08 20:42:22 2012 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Aug 09 02:59:59 2012