chmoding a selfgenerated file

run

hey🙂

in some way chmod is not working properly, well at least for me😉
I wrote a script which generates a file in a properly chmoded folder(777), everything works great but chmod, coz if I try to chmod these files by php, it fails without any notification.
I tried to chmod the selfgenerated files manually by ftp, but it fails too!
weird coz when I'm uploading a file into the same folder , I can chmod it afterwards by ftp.

what's wrong? what did overview?

why is that not working?

<?
...
chmod("$file", 0755);
...
?>

thank you
/run

dalecosp

Who owns the file? the folder it's in?

run

Originally posted by dalecosp
Who owns the file? the folder it's in?

Hey, thnx for reply🙂

hmm yes I think so.

Here's what I did:

I created manually by ftp a folder and chmoded it to 777.
then I wrote a little script, which allows to create a file inside in that folder from my website
<?
..
fopen(..)
..
?>
Works great to this point.

As next step I would like it to chmod that created file from my website , and here it fails.

Any idea? 🙂

/run

drawmack

instead of 777 use 0777 the octal I find that i have less problems if I use octal for chmod and other things of the sort then if I use decimal.

dalecosp

Methinks drawmack's hit this one on the head ... IIRC, the PHP manual makes it clear that their chmod doesn't work in dec like the 'Nix one ...

[man]chmod/man

You might also search this forum for "chmod" --- I seem to recall reading another thread much like this one recently ...

HTH,