Permissions problem

[yungbloodreborn]

I'm having a permissions problem that I don't quite understand.

I have a dir called "games" on my web server owned by kevin:apache. with 0775 permissions.

I have a php script create a dir called "games/kaboom".

It gains the owner of apache:apache, and permissions of 0755.

And I can't seem to create anything inside of "games/kaboom".

 

I've tried explicitly setting owner & permissions, but it seems to be ignored.

Is there anything I can do to create stuff deeper in "games/kaboom" ??

[trq]

Set the users sticky bit on the games directory.

[yungbloodreborn]

Did I do this correctly? I wiped out the dir:

rm -rf games

 

Then I did:

mkdir games

chown kevin:apache games

chmod 7775 games

 

But it still creates files with owner of apache:apache... I'm sure I missing something.

[n3r0x]

try chown -R kevin:apache games

 

-R Descends directories recursively, changing the ownership for each

file. When a symbolic link is encountered and the link points to a

directory, the ownership of that directory is changed but the directory

is not further transversed.

for more information abut chown http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~dicke3/nerspcs/chown.html

[yungbloodreborn]

I know about the -R.

I'm creating a directory and setting the owner/permissions.

There is nothing in the dir yet. So what purpose would the -R serve?

[yungbloodreborn]

I would still like an answer on this...

 

But for this project I've decided to use another method. Since my purpose was just to unzip a file that I've uploaded to the server, I've decided to just use a cron job search for .zip files in the games folder, and have the cron job do the unzipping.

[n3r0x]

I always use -R for empty dirs.. files in them are created with the same owner by apache..