[Xitami] chmodd's for cgi - help please

[Ashfield Web Services Ltd]

Thanks for reply.

That is how I understood it but I have got a situation that when running a
cgi script I get the error "can't write to fileX.etc ....check permissions"

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ewen McNeill" <ewen@imatix.com>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] chmodd's for cgi - help please


> In message <002b01c15ba0$39311ee0$0c1efea9@main>, "Ashfield Web Services
Ltd" wr
> ites:
> >How do I change the File Permissions (755,666 etc....) for files in the
> >cgi-bin. [...] Windows 98 SE
>
> You can't :-)  Windows doesn't support file permissions like that.  Any
> program, and any user, can do anything they like under Windows.  So just
> ignore the instructions about needing to change file permissions;
> they're for Unix/Linux (and to a lesser extent Windows NT which uses a
> slightly different model).
>
> Ewen
>
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