0777 makes sense as a permission setting, and 777 doesn't. Numerical permissions are specified in octal, not decimal; so 777 is actually the permission 01411, which is different than what you want, I'd suspect. :)

I have heard that some web servers (apache) don't run scripts if they have beeen chmod:ed too liberal, out of security reasons. Chmod 711 works for me.

One thing i wonder abt, how _shoud_ I chmod directories, html files et.c.
I've seen people (who knows more about unix systems than me) reaching files or directories higher up in the tree from the web.

/wonko

To clarify for those used to the unix command...chmod(0NNN, $file) is not the same as "# chmod 0NNN $file" run from a shell. Perl interprets the value as octal because of the leading 0. So if you're trying to get g+s, you'll need to use 02NNN or oct(2NNN).

umask(0000);
chmod(0777,'whatever') or warn();
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Actually, the umask merely sets the default permissions. If you use chmod, you can set the permissions to anything you want (assuming you own the file).

You're absolutely right! My bad...

At first, when I read your post, I though, "This can't be right! I've been doing this for ages now!" And then I tested it:

johnny@chthon:~/tmp > mkdir foobar
johnny@chthon:~/tmp > ls -l
total 1
drwxr-xr-x   2 johnny   users        1024 May  4 07:10 foobar
johnny@chthon:~/tmp > perl -e 'umask(0666); chmod(0777,'foobar');'
johnny@chthon:~/tmp > l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   3 johnny   users        1024 May  4 07:10 ./
drwx------  12 johnny   users        2048 May  3 23:09 ../
drwxrwxrwx   2 johnny   users        1024 May  4 07:10 foobar/
johnny@chthon:~/tmp >
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'nough said! I've been doing it wrong for ages... Thanks!