LinuxQuestions.org - permissions?

Is this to make files available for your web server? If so you might want to have a look at a little Perl script that I use... It will chmod your files and dirs, 711 for dirs, 755 for cgi files and 644 for the rest.

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

# A little program to chmod all files to in the current directory and

# sub-directories to public readable and executable as necessary.  All

# directories are set to 711, this EXCLUDES the current directory (.),

# all .cgi, .class, .prl file are changed to 755, all remaining files are

# changed to 644.



use File::Find;



@ARGV = ('.') unless @ARGV;



find(\&process_file, @ARGV);



sub process_file {



  if ( -d ) {

    chmod 0711, "$_";

    print("chmod'ed $_/ to 711\n");

    return;

  }



  if ( /\.cgi$|\.prl$|\.class$|\.pl/i ) {

    chmod 0755, "$_"; 

    print("chmod'ed $_ to 755\n");

  }

  else {

    chmod 0644, "$_" ;

    print("chmod'ed $_ to 644\n");

  }

}

HTH

Jamie...

PS Damn the forum double spacing the code makes it look bad! (in Opera)