Here's the issue:
Apache runs as uid "www". Which is as it should. The scripts run by Apache create files that are owned by www, and cannot be deleted by me, the owner of the scripts. The milieu here is a colo'd box, with a real bastard of an admin who's not about to give me sudo, (can't say I blame him, I know just enough to make the box go all explodey) or let me masquerade as www. What I'm trying to pull out of some orifice is a way to have Apache run scripts as the userid of ther daddy, (me) or at least have the files created by said scripts owned by me. Can this be done without conjuring a C wrapper, or my running my own copy of Apache on the box? Maybe some relative of the most holy "setuid bit", that would work on cgi/perl scripts. Or maybe some arcane line in the .htaccess. or httpd.conf I've overlooked.

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Kires
I'm an idiot. What's your excuse?

I have the exact same problem.

Sorry for bringing up such an old topic, but I did a search and I found this, and I didn't want to start another because it already existed.

So, anyone knows how to solve this problem?

You can either:
1) Get your script to chmod them 777 (not very safe on a shared server)
2) Use another script to delete them.

You could install the scripts setuid, if you're absolutely certain they won't change anything they're not supposed to. That way, with luck, they should run as your user, and you'll be able to delete them. Alternatively, see if you can get the script to create its files as 775, and get your friendly sysadmin to add you to the owning group.