Permission acting funny

[hyratech]

in Cpanel File Manager.

All permissions displayed are xxx.. but when u click on chnage permission is always 777 even when the permission is set to 755

for example. my files are

filename.pl 644

but if you choose to change permission on that file, it's listed as 777

[12Wonder]

yeah I have noticed that and don't know if it's just a recent peculiarity in cpanel or what. However if you select/unselect the proper checkboxes to modify perms to 755 or 644 etc., the permissions you set WILL take effect. It's just when you click to "Change Permissions" that it shows you all the boxes checked by default now (which is 777) to start changing from.

Anne

[hyratech]

Anne,

My website's update/patch is not working. i openned a trouble ticket with the developers.
This is what they have to say:

Check if your hosting server set value of PHP variable "open_basedir" to some value. If the variable has some value but does not include the /usr/bin/perl filename, please contact your hosting administrators and ask them to add "/usr/bin/perl/" file path to the list of open_basedir folders (PHP configuration variable).


I'm not sure what that really means.. maybe you can make this into some sense.

[12Wonder]

I'm not going to discuss server settings here in a public environment. However they are incorrect in their assumptions.

As stated previously in phone conversations etc, when you get an error the first place you should look is in your cPanel Error Logs. Scroll down a bit under the top several lines to today's most recent errors. You will see:

[Sat Jul 8 16:01:45 2006] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.x] malformed header from script. Bad header=Hmm... I can't seem to find a: /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/shop/xxxxx.pl

where the x's above represent ip, your username, and scriptname.

Once more: This is not a server issue. It is a SCRIPT issue and you must consult your programmers for assistance with the script.