Fellow Monasterians,

I comfortable working on the command line to do this, but I've created Web app that uses CGI's upload method to upload a file from the browser. On the way, if the subdirectory 'foobar' doesn't exist, my script makes it.

I have the permissions working, but I'm getting the desired ownership of:

drwxrwx--- 2 www-data sftp  4096 2008-07-28 22:18 foobar

[download]

instead I'm ending up with:

drwxrwx--- 2 www-data www-data  4096 2008-07-28 22:18 foobar

[download]

Likewise, the file ownership itself is the same:

-rwxrwx--- 1 www-data www-data 27034 2008-07-28 22:32 wilma.jpg

[download]

Here's my script:

mkdir('foobar') or die...;
my $mode = 0770; chmod $mode, 'foobar' or die...; 
chown 'www-data', 'sftp', 'foobar' or die...;

my $upload_filehandle = $query->upload($upload);
open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename";
binmode UPLOADFILE;
while ( <$upload_filehandle> ) {
   print UPLOADFILE;
}
close UPLOADFILE;
$mode = 0770;   chmod $mode, "$upload_dir/$filename";

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Is this even possible? Thanks.

Update: Fixed typo

Update 2: per comments of the good monks, I changed chown 'www-data', 'sftp', 'foobar' or die; to chown -1, 1003, 'foobar' or die; (1003 being the numeric equivalent for the group) for success.

—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to Script not setting ownership of new directory by bradcathey

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