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Re: [SMARTY] OS X chmod problem

Jochem Maas

2005-05-04, 9:00 pm

Marcus Bointon wrote:
> I've run into a little problem. The docs for getcwd() mentions: "On
> some Unix variants, getcwd() will return FALSE if any one of the parent
> directories does not have the readable or search mode set, even if the
> current directory does." OS X is evidently one of these, and it's
> stopping Smarty running at all as it causes the
> smarty_core_create_dir_structure function to fail in userdir sites.
>
> This means that I have to give read and execute permissions to /, /
> Users, /Users/marcus, /Users/marcus/Sites etc, which is not great for
> userdir sites. I noticed that the permissions on /Users is:
>
> drwxrwxr-t 12 root admin 408 Apr 29 21:58 ./
>
> I can't find any docs on what the 't' bit means. Anyone know?

it means the 'sticky bit' is on.
plenty of documentation about the sticky bit to get

about :-)
here is one to start you off....:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/section-70.html

can't help you with OSX tho.
(apart from to say it looks nicer than windows on the whole :-)

>
> Any other workarounds for this?
>
> TIA,
>
> Marcus

Marcus Bointon

2005-05-04, 9:00 pm

On 4 May 2005, at 16:03, Jochem Maas wrote:

> it means the 'sticky bit' is on.

I'd heard of sticky bits (and what they do) but didn't realise that's
how they appear in output from ls. Anyway, I fixed the problem
(unrelated to the sticky bit) by doing what the PHP docs implied, by
doing chmod a+rx on all directories from my site folder upwards and
suddenly getcwd starts working and thus so does smarty. One for the
archives, perhaps the Smarty docs too...

> can't help you with OSX tho.
> (apart from to say it looks nicer than windows on the whole :-)

I'm running Tiger and I have to say that it is very nice indeed, even
though my graphics card (GeForce 4MX) can't do all the funky new
stuff. ArsTechnica has a deep review of 10.4 that's very interesting
reading.

Marcus
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Jochem Maas

2005-05-04, 9:00 pm

Marcus Bointon wrote:
> On 4 May 2005, at 16:03, Jochem Maas wrote:
>
>
>
> I'd heard of sticky bits (and what they do) but didn't realise that's
> how they appear in output from ls. Anyway, I fixed the problem

your post stuck out because I learnt this myself only a very short while
ago while researching into a some cvs administration stuff

> (unrelated to the sticky bit) by doing what the PHP docs implied, by
> doing chmod a+rx on all directories from my site folder upwards and

you did use 'chmod -R' and save yourself quite a bit of typing I hope.
the sticky bit (on directories anyway) determines the group:user of new/overwritten
files inside the given directory... it means new files/dir automatically
inherit the correct perms.

> suddenly getcwd starts working and thus so does smarty. One for the
> archives, perhaps the Smarty docs too...

glad you got it fixed. :-)

>
>
>
> I'm running Tiger and I have to say that it is very nice indeed, even
> though my graphics card (GeForce 4MX) can't do all the funky new stuff.
> ArsTechnica has a deep review of 10.4 that's very interesting reading.

2 things stop me using OSX:

1. you can't maximise windows like you can elsewhere.
2. only the bottom/right corner of a window can be used to resize.

they day they 'fix' 2 in the std install is the day I buy a G5.

....but each to their own in this game :-)

>
> Marcus

Marcus Bointon

2005-05-04, 9:00 pm

On 4 May 2005, at 19:03, Jochem Maas wrote:

> you did use 'chmod -R' and save yourself quite a bit of typing I hope.

Actually chmod -R is no use for this - You need to set the +rx
permissions for the site directory and all above, not below it (as -R
would do). Doing chmod -R a+rx in / doesn't do anything for your
security!

Marcus

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