/cache/images is filling w. files owned by root

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I have three sugar installations that are virtually identical. Today I began updating each one to 4.5.1b. When I went to update one of them, I received an error that the permissions on some of the files in the /cache/images folder were wrong. It turns out when the scheduler runs to pull in new messages, that it is loading image files into that folder and giving them root permissions.

I checked the cron job, and it runs under root, and the folder /cache and /cache/images are both owned by and members of apache user and group.

My other two installations do not have this problem, and I cannot figure out why any file is appearing with root permissions instead of apache permissions.

Any thoughts on what is happening to my installation? Have I been hacked? or is there another issue with the scheduler and the polling of email with the cron job? Any help would be appreciated.

FYI: Installed on Fedora Core 5 running apache, all emails come in via POP3

[eupaccrm]

Hi there,

I've had the exact same problem where sugar created files in the /cache folder with root ownership, and then getting permission issues trying to access them.

I also had the crontab running under root, but have now deleted it and added a crontab for the apache user (the Sugar Admin/Install manual does instruct you to add a crontab under apache user).

I have also changed the config file for default file permissions on Linux as below:

'default_permissions' => array (
'dir_mode' => 02770,
'file_mode' => 0660,
'chown' => 'apache',
'chgrp' => 'apache',

Actually the dir_mode and file_mode were already set to the decimal equivalents 1528 and 432 (not sure whether it's correct to put decimal format or octal), so I've left that as decimal and just changed chown and chgrp.

I'll see how it goes and report if I still get the cache/permission issues.

Anyone else with the same or similar problems?