We had to upgrade our server from interchange version 4.2 with redhat 7.0 to version 4.8.6 with redhat 7.2.

It was not an actual upgrade due to a hacker messing with the eth0 so we had to rely on a backup a day ago. The whole server is actually backed up, but due to the security holed in 4.2 we took a brand new machine put rh 7.2 and interchange 4.8.6. Restored the needed files.

There is one problem:
The files in /var/www/cgi-bin/* are system protected with a permissions of -rwSr-sr-x

What is the S and little s for how do I take it off/add it and is it possible to move that invo to another computer with out corrupting. Or do I have to unconvert it and then move.

-HELP

Sorry about that.... it is 4.2 to 4.8.6 interchange

In the permission scheme you got there is hell lot of a security hole - s and S are suid and sgid whic tell the system to run scripts in the context of the user and group who instantiated the scripts. For instance if a script performs crtical system calls this means that if user A runs this script he might insert some nusty malformed requests into the script, and hence, undermine the security (the capital S with rw gives the user a permission to modify the script, even remove it) of the whole system, you should be very careful with those. The permissions were created with
chmod 6645

I know that is a security hole cause we got hacked and who ever did it changed those permissions. Thanks a million on how to set them.