another chmod question

bam

howdy,

i'm attempting to simply create a directory, and chmod it to 755 or 777 through a script - i've tried the obvious:

mkdir("$fullpath", 0777);

with or without

chmod("$fullpath", 0777);

the slightly less obvious, which essentially just includes a resetting of the umask,

and a few versions of ftp_chmod, with the necessary connection/etc functions

the one-up directory that I'm placing these new dirs in is set to 0777, so it's not a simple permission problem. safe mode is off, so it shouldn't be related to that

at that though, i'm at a loss - my created dirs still insist on going in as 0744

any of you good folks have any ideas on what i'm missing?

thorpe

the only thing i can see is there is no need for the quotes.

mkdir($fullpath, 0777);

bradgrafelman

Also, try just:

mkdir($fullpath);

as 0777 is the default mode.

Also, try this code:

 echo "Making directory: " . mkdir($fullpath) . "<br>";
echo "chmod'ing directory: " . chmod($fullpath, 0777) . "<br>";
echo "Directory '$fullpath' permisions: " . substr(sprintf('%o', fileperms($fullpath)), -4);

and paste us the output.

bam

thanks so far folks - no luck thus however 🙁

I attempted outputting results before but caught in an oddity

here's the output from your bit of code though brad

Making directory: 1
chmod'ing directory: 1
Directory '/path/to/dir/tempgal/' permisions: 0777

the catch, though, is that when I flip over to an ftp prog to check, it says that the dir is on 0744 for some reason - also as a result, files in that dir can't be viewed in a browser, etc

i know i'm not insane, but i'm getting pretty damn close 😛

bradgrafelman

I know it sounds like I'm calling you stupid, but trust me, I'm not:

Are you positive you're talking about the same directories here?

Also, once this script finishes chmod'ing the directory to 0777 (or does it?), create an entirely different script with this as its contents:

substr(sprintf('%o', fileperms('/dw16/d77/greenbam/frantic/gallery/tempgal/')), -4);

name it dirtest.php or whatever, but once your other script finishes running, run that test in a different browser window. See what it says.

bam

hehe, don't worry, i'm not insulted - just annoyed at random bugs that i can't get a feel for very well 😉

yes, it's certainly the same directory - php says it's chmodding, the server seems to disagree - i thought it might be an ownership issue originally, but that would return a permission denied error of some sort if i'm not mistaken (which, of course, I could be)

that last bit of code returned a blank page, no source by the way

bradgrafelman

My mistake!! Source should be this:

echo substr(sprintf('%o', fileperms('/dw16/d77/greenbam/frantic/gallery/tempgal/')), -4);

bam

oops - i actually caught the missing echo, but tossed a couple " in out of habit and killed it

php now agrees that the dir is set to 0744

...fiddled with it a tiny bit more, dropped a similar output statement on either side of a chmod command, and...
...still 0744

bradgrafelman

Not sure what to say. Sorry!

planetsim

Well 0777 is an Octal. So if we were to echo it straight out we'd get something like 511 When used to create a directory should really be giving you 755.

So what we need is to use [man]umask[/man]

Here we go

<?php

$old_umask = umask(0);
mkdir ('/path/to/myNewDir',0777);
umask($old_mask);

?>

bam

looks like it's at least currently a lost cause

(umask is the first thing i tried playing with to fix it up)

thanks for the help though guys - a few tricks i hadn't thought of that may come in handy next time i'm chasing a moth through the univac 😉

thorpe

only new to linux here, but just a thought. your filepath ends in a /. should it?