richjb — Fri, 19 May 2000 17:23:00 +0000

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

Instead of:

code:

chmod (755, $file_path, $dir) | | die "failed chmod  Reason: $!";
[/code]

It should be:
code:chmod (0755, $file_path, $dir) | | die "failed chmod  Reason: $!";
[/code]

You'll notice it won't work without the zero, or a 1, whichever you want.

Thanks again.

Richard

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     richard@brevig.com      

"I'm so wracked with guilt. I don't want to stop therapy 
because I'm afraid to take the income away from my therapist. 
He's got kids in college."
-- Tim Halpern

hcshim — Thu, 18 May 2000 21:54:00 +0000

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

richjb — Fri, 12 May 2000 13:22:00 +0000

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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richard@brevig.com

"I'm so wracked with guilt. I don't want to stop therapy
because I'm afraid to take the income away from my therapist.
He's got kids in college."
-- Tim Halpern

Orpheus — Thu, 11 May 2000 21:00:00 +0000

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.