CHMOD in Perl failure

richjb posted this at 18:31 — 11th May 2000.

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I am attempting at writing a script that creates a directory, then creates a file in that directory, and then chmods them.

Thus far the script successfully creates the file and directory, but the chmod command is failing, but does not die. I don't understand. Here follows my code:

code:

chmod (755, $file_path, $dir) | | die "failed chmod  Reason: $!";
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Currently, the files remain at what seems like 0 permissions.  :-(

Thanks a lot.

Richard

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Orpheus posted this at 21:00 — 11th May 2000.

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CGI scripts execute as user "nobody" if the server admin didn't want that user to have the ability to chmod files then he could set it to that.

richjb posted this at 13:22 — 12th May 2000.

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I made the script do a whoami call and print it out, the results are my name; so they should be executed under my rights. If there is not syntax error, then I will contact my host.

Thanks,
Richard

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hcshim posted this at 21:54 — 18th May 2000.

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Can you post the error message in your error log file so that we can help you better?

richjb posted this at 17:23 — 19th May 2000.

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Tanks for your insterest in helping, but I figured out the problem.

Instead of:

code:

chmod (755, $file_path, $dir) | | die "failed chmod  Reason: $!";
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It should be:
code:chmod (0755, $file_path, $dir) | | die "failed chmod  Reason: $!";
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You'll notice it won't work without the zero, or a 1, whichever you want.

Thanks again.

Richard

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because I'm afraid to take the income away from my therapist. 
He's got kids in college."
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