chmod routine 2

[BlindPete]

Hello All,

I'm hoping someone has a function they can share to do this for me.

I want to be able CHMOD(666) or CHMOD(777) an entire directory branch, including all files and sub folders.

Its an APACHE server on a LINUX box.

If anyone has a cron script that would do fine.

thanks a bunch!

-Pete
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[sleipnir214]

chmod 777 is never a good idea. You never know when world write permissions can lead to problems, so avoiding it is a good idea.


I'd just run:

chmod -R [permissions] /path/to/directory

as an external command using either shellexec() or the backtick operator



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[DRJ478]

This can be easily done with system commands, and as such I don't think a PHP script would be better. The PHP would also just work if the command line version of PHP is installed.
IMO you are much better off with a regular chron job that uses find, something like

find . -type -f -exec chmod 666 {}\;

 

[BlindPete]

I agree on the 777. the path in question is also htaccess protected

help me out alittle more with the cron. I'm really bad at it.

say my parent path is:
\public_html\files
under that is much directory structure and many files that I want to CHMOD 666

so would the CRON line look like this?

find \public_html\files\. -type -f -exec chmod 666 {}\;

-Pete
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[sleipnir214]

Since we are no longer discussing PHP, I think you would be better served asking about cron in an OS-specific forum.



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[BlindPete]

thanks guys a star for each of you!

-Pete
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