Hi,

I'm writing an installer script (run on a Linux box) that copies files from a source directory to a target directory. Then it attempts to set some permissions on the new files using chmod. When the code below is run, chmod always returns 1, but when I go look at the files, the permissions are set to 0664 instead of 0777! Any idea what's going on? Incidentally, the user I'm running the script as does have read/write/execute permissions to the installer's target and source directories.
foreach my $file(@toInstall){
    print "Copying $file to $input{'installDir'}/...";
    system("cp -Rf ./source/$file $input{'installDir'}/");
    if(!(-e "$input{'installDir'}/$file")){
        die "FAILED!  Unable to complete file copy! DNE: $input{'insta
+llDir'}/$file\n";
    }
    print "done.  Attempting to set permissions: ";
    print(chmod(0777,"$input{'installDir'}/$file"));
    print "\nFinished installing $file!\n";
}

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