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Aug 6, 2002, 9:22 PM
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Chmod instructions in installation readme.txt files
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Small point: As well as saying CHMOD 775 or whatever, it would be useful to see the actual permission, eg. -rwx r-x r-x as some FTP programs do it visually, eg. Vicom FTP for the Mac.
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MalaK_3araby
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Aug 7, 2002, 5:19 PM
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Re: [nigelparry] Chmod instructions in installation readme.txt files
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http://www.egovision.co.uk/htmlresources/articles/cgi1.html
As to what they mean? Well, r=read, w=write and x=execute. Numerically, each number is calculated by adding all the values together, with each attribute being represented thus:
OWNER GROUP WORLD r w x r w x r w x 4 2 1 4 2 1 4 2 1
So, 755 means that the owner has read, write and execute rights (4+2+1), whilst both the Group and World have read and execute rights (4+1). Therefore 755 is the same as rwxr-xr-x.
Got it? Good : ) Hope that helps mate.
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Aug 8, 2002, 9:48 AM
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Hi Nigel,
I wanted to add for reference for anyone else viewing this thread, here is the file permissions for: - Executable: CHMOD 755 or -rwxr-xr-x
- Writable: CHMOD 777 or drwxrwxrwx
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Damon Edis
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Aug 8, 2002, 10:11 AM
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Thanks Damon and Malek.
I found Malek's explanation very concise and helpful and have consequently memorised it :-)
My suggestion was to add exactly what Damon just wrote, in interactive tool's install readme files because many of us (my guess) are webmasters who aren't programmers, and the more you can dumb it down for us, the better. :-)
At the time I was installing the second script, I just didn't have access to the little cheat sheet I usually keep and the FTP program I use doesn't allow you to input a CHMOD command but has this three group interface (owner, group, public) that has three RWX checkboxes for each. Not helpful if you don't know the 4-2-1 formula for R-W-X.
Giving the same info in many redundant ways is always helpful. In general, interactivetools.com software is plainly design to be as simple as possible to install, which is excellent. Keep it up.
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Nigel Parry
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(This post was edited by nigelparry on Aug 8, 2002, 10:56 AM)
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