Re: [cobalt-users] permission denied during ftp

["Dave" <maxdoubt@xxxxxx>]

> other day I discovered that CGI scripts weren't being run on any of the
> first 32 sites transferred to the box because they were owned by "Admin" and
> cgi-wrap kept saying "Permission Denied".

>> I was able to use chown -R site_admin siteX.  Did you use the -R switch?

Be VERY careful of using this switch. -R or --recursive allows chown to
traverse subdirectories recursively, applying changes.  This means every
subdirectory will also be chown'd.  We have seen examples on this list of
ENTIRE servers becoming ROOT after this command was used improperly.

Dave~