Re: Chmod

Are you using 0777, or 777? Try 0777.

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. :)

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RE: Re: Chmod by wonko (Pilgrim) on May 03, 2000 at 17:56 UTC
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	[reply]
Re^2: Chmod by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2005 at 22:38 UTC
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).	[reply]