Chmod question

[brandondrury]

I'm curious what my options are concerning the chmodding of the "modules" folder.

It appears that my webserver does not allow scripts to change permissions of files and directories. At least it never has before.

I've been chmodding the modules folder for about 45 minutes now. I refuse to go in by hand to chmod another 6,000 files or whatever.

I was wondering what my options are. Is there a ftp program that will cdmod all files in a directory (including files in a subdirectory)?

Thanks,
Brandon Drury
Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
Linux

[jscherber]

I use WSFTP Professional and it permits this. Worth every cent you will pay.

Hope this helps.

Best, James Scherber

[kickedmydog]

Why not do it a simpler way like this at the command level?

Make everything 755 for folders by running chmod -R 755 sugar/

To make the files 644 type:

find dir/ -type f | xargs -n1 chmod 644

(dir = your sugar folder)

Personally I run everything at 777 and config.php at 644 with the least headaches.

[brandondrury]

Why not do it a simpler way like this at the command level?

Make everything 755 for folders by running chmod -R 755 sugar/

To make the files 644 type:

find dir/ -type f | xargs -n1 chmod 644

(dir = your sugar folder)

Personally I run everything at 777 and config.php at 644 with the least headaches.

Hmm. I'm braindead when it comes to server stuff.

I tried entering "find dir/ -type f | xargs -n1 chmod 644" as a raw ftp command in Filezilla and I got an error saying "500 Find" not understod.

I use WSFTP Professional and it permits this. Worth every cent you will pay.

I actually own WSFTP Pro. I always thought it was buggy so I switched to Filezilla. I reinstalled it but I can't find where this is found yet.

Brandon

[kpit]

I use another program called filezilla a ftp client and the Price is right... Free! It works for windows users. Filezilla can be downloaded at http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/