PHP session files have permissions of 000 - They're ununsable

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Published on 2010-01-20T00:57:08Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 16:03 UTC
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I kept having issues with a Document Management System I'm trying to install as, at the first step of the installation process, it would error with:

Warning: Unknown: open(/tmp/sess_d39cac7f80834b2ee069d0c867ac169c, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

I looked in /tmp and saw the sess_* files have the following permissions

---------- 1 vanced vanced 1240 Jan 20 08:48 sess_d39cac7f80834b2ee069d0c867ac169c

All the session files look like this. So obviously, they're unusable by PHP and it's causing me lots of problems.

How can I get PHP to set the correct permissions? I've tried changing the directory which php.ini uses to /tmp/phpsessions and the same thing occurs. The directories are a+rwx.

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