Snow Leopard mounted directory changes permissions sporadically
- by Galen
I have a smb mounted directory:
/Volumes/myshare
This was mounted via Finder "Connect to Server..." with smb://myservername/myshare
Everything good so far.
However, when I try to access the directory via PHP (running under Apache), it fails with permission denied about 10% of the time. By this I mean that repeated accesses to my page sometimes result in a failure. My PHP page looks like:
<?php
$cmd = "ls -la /Volumes/ 2>&1";
exec($cmd, $execOut, $exitCode);
echo "<PRE>EXIT CODE = $exitCode<BR/>";
foreach($execOut as $line) {
echo "$line <BR/>";
}
echo "</PRE>";
?>
When it succeeds it looks like:
EXIT CODE = 0
total 40
drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin 136 Jun 14 12:34 .
drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1088 Jun 4 13:09 ..
drwx------ 1 galen staff 16384 Jun 14 09:28 myshare
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jun 11 16:05 galenhd - /
When it fails it looks like:
EXIT CODE = 1
ls: myshare: Permission denied
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin 136 Jun 14 12:34 .
drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1088 Jun 4 13:09 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jun 11 16:05 galenhd - /
OTHER INFO:
I'm working with the PHP (5.3.1), and Apache server that comes out of the box with Snow Leopard.
Also, if I write a PHP script that loops and retries the "ls -la.." from the command-line, it doesn't seem to fail.
Nothing is changing about the code and/or filesystem between succeeds and fails, so this appears to be a truly intermittent failure.
This is driving me crazy. Anyone have any idea what might be going on?
Thanks,
Galen
