FTP troubles - help please

Well I have never had this trouble but you could re-CHMOD it to say 755, and then delete.
JP

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i guess i know about your problem.
a script has changed the permission, right?
just write another script that chmods the file to 777 or 755 and you'll be able to delete, or simply let the script do this for ya.
cu
patrick

Yes, a script chmod'ed the file so that I can't do anything with it. I went to www.cgi-resources.com and looked for such a script as described above but couldn't find one. Any suggestions?

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Patrick knows more along this line, but I think all you need to do is write a little Perl Script on your own. It would be pretty short, something like this (Patrick, coreect me if I mess up here ):

#!/usr/bin/perl
chmod (0755, "/your/path/filename.html");

Save it and run the program from the command line through telnet. It should fix the chmod permissions for you.

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John Pollock
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Hmm, sounds simple enough, I'll have to try it. I don't have telnet though, so I'll use as a simple cgi function.

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I tried this and got a 500 error:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
chmod (0777, "/data1/myserver/domain/directory");

Hmmm, that smiley face is supposed to be an )

I named it as a cgi file tried to execute it by typing in the url. Any ideas of what I need to do to get it to work.

Thanks

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Hmm...

Maybe I have the format wrong, or left something out. We'll have to get Patrick when he gets back in.

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John Pollock
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Try this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
unlink ("/path/to/file.html");
print "content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "The file was successfully deleted";

This script should delete the file.

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Thanks for the help polpus, I hadn't thought of that.

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John Pollock
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Works like a charm! Thanks a lot polpus and John.

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Well, actually it works great on files, not directories. Any idea how I can get rid of the directories?

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OK, I figured it out with the rmdir command. All is good now, thanks again for the help.

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