Mysterious session.gdbm problems

["John Donagher" <john@webmeta.com>]

Hi all-
    I'm new to the list, so I'm sorry if this has been asked/answered
before.

    I'm running the current version of Minivend on Solaris 2.6, and have no
problems with the daemon itself, but rather with the test catalog I
installed. In the CATROOT/simple directory, there is a file called session
.gdbm, which I know very little about. I assume it's some sort of
user-session tracking database.

    The problem is that the server runs under user 'minivend', but for some
reason, this session.gdbm file gets chowned and chgrp'd to root. This
prevents the minivend server from accessing it due to permission problems,
which results in the lovely Internal Server Error whenever anyone tries to
access the test shopping cart. I don't know why it's happening - it happens
some hours after I chown it back to minivend (which is the only solution I
have right now). I can't seem to associate it with any particular event.
None of the other files get chowned to root. I checked all the docs and FAQs
I could find on the Minivend site, and while fairly comprehensive, I
couldn't find anything similar to my problem.

    Any insight into this problem would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
John Donagher
http://www.webmeta.com/