Why is the “chmod” not working

[subcomandante]

I have following directory “test” and am trying to change chmod from 755 to 777 as follows:

$f = “ /home/user/cgi-bin/test/
chmod(0777, $f);

Why is it not working?
Is there any other control or enable of this function?
I am going nuts with this issue of “chmod” !
It appears it has mind of its own.

 

[MikeLacey]

sub

This might not be your problem, but your code should be written like this:

$f = '/home/user/cgi-bin/test/';
chmod(0777, $f);
Mike
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[subcomandante]

Sorry!
Yes that was typo only here!
It is as you suggested.

$f = '/home/user/cgi-bin/test/';

 

[goBoating]

Be sure that you actually have write permission on the directory to start with or the chmod won't work.

If you are trying to do this via a CGI through a browser, remember that the web daemon must have write permissions to the dir in order for this to be successful.

HTH If you are new to Tek-Tips, please use descriptive titles, check the FAQs,
and beware the evil typo.

 

[gmlewis]

One thing I have discovered is that 'chmod' is an incredibly slow operation... if you perform it in
a large loop on many files, it will take a long time.
I always start my script with:

umask 0;

And then, if I am creating directories, I say:

mkdir $dir,0777 unless -d $dir;

When I create files, the 'umask' take care of making
the files 0666, I believe.

Not exactly what you asked, but hopefully this helps.
-- Glenn Lewis

 

[tsdragon]

I don't think the perl chmod command will work on a directory! From reading the documentation, it looks like it only works on a list of FILES. I'd try the unix chmod command instead, using system or backtics to run it. Tracy Dryden
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