[arch-general] Permission problems - http is 0775, (root:http), I am in http -- still can't write??

[David C. Rankin]

On Friday 06 November 2009 17:22:32 and regarding:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 05:08:02PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > 16:59 alchemy:/srv/http> grep http /etc/group
> > http::33:david
> 
> And what is the output of:
> $ groups
> ?
> 
> Don't know if "gpasswd -a" is failing, I use:
> # usermod -a -G groupname username
> 

It's there:

06:44 alchemy:~> groups
... lp wheel uucp http ...

It got to the point I just had to chown -R me:http /srv/http, I had to get the 
webserver up. I don't know what the issue was, but even with group write 
permissions properly set, I couldn't.

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