Undeletable files + dirs

[RussellDonders]

Hi,
I have checked the knowledge base and perldoc but cant find an understandable answer for my problem.

What does umask do, I think it will sove my problem but don't even know what it does!?? The problem I have. I have written a script that uses mkdir($dirname, 0777) to create a dir and then puts a file into it. I thought all was fine but when I went through with FTP to try and delete the dirs i created it wouldnt let me delete them "error 500 operation not permitted". I noticed that the owner was the Apache web server rather than my ftp username. I had previously (in error) used 777 instead of 0777 when creating the dirs (which led to weird values 341 i think) but these directories were able to be deleted. How do I create dirs with a script that are deletable via my account when I FTP ??

Your help is much appreciated!

 

[MikeLacey]

The ability to delete files (and directories) depends upon the permissions of the directory that contain them.

Make sure that you have write permission on that directory and you should be OK.

I have to admit, I never use umask - I always set the permissions of files and directories explicitly using [tt]chmod[/tt], and I always use the easy way of setting permissions as well, like this:

[tt]chmod gou+wrx file[/tt]

instead of:

[tt]chmod 777 file[/tt]
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
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