I have tried to change a permission of a file and I go the following error:

Why can I not change the permission.

CGI ERROR==========================================
Error Message : Unable to change permissions for 'auction.cgi' to '775'. Reason: Operation not permitted
Script Location : /data1/hypermart.net/visaa/cgi-bin/filemgr/fileman.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404Configuration
-------------------------------------------allowed_space : 20000
icondir_url : http://www.visaa.net/cgi-bin/filemgr/icons
logfile : /data1/hypermart.net/visaa/cgi-bin/filemgr/fileman.log
max_upload : 1000
password_dir : /data1/hypermart.net/visaa/cgi-bin/filemgr/pass
root_dir : /data1/hypermart.net/visaa
root_url : http://www.visaa.net
script_url : http://www.visaa.net/cgi-bin/filemgr/fileman.cgi
show_date : 1show_icon : 1show_pass : 1
show_perm : 1show_size : 1use_flock : 1
version : 1.0Form Variables
-------------------------------------------action : permissions
name : auction.cginewperm : 775
wd : cgi-binEnvironment Variables
-------------------------------------------
DOCUMENT_ROOT : /data1/hypermart.net/visaaGATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflateHTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: de
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL : max-age=259200HTTP_CONNECTION : keep-alive
HTTP_COOKIE : questions=%2C1%2CxxHTTP_HOST : www.visaa.net
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; magnet IE4 CD 4.0)
HTTP_VIA : 1.0 www-proxy.magnet.at:8080 (Squid/2.1.PATCH2)
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 195.170.64.48
PATH : /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
QUERY_STRING : action=permissions&name=auction.cgi&newperm=775&wd=cgi-bin
REMOTE_ADDR : 195.170.70.75REMOTE_HOST : 195.170.70.75
REMOTE_PORT : 64499REQUEST_METHOD : GET
REQUEST_URI : /cgi-bin/filemgr/fileman.cgi?action=permissions&name=auction.cgi&newperm=775&wd=cgi-bin
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /data1/hypermart.net/visaa/cgi-bin/filemgr/fileman.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-bin/filemgr/fileman.cgi
SCRIPT_URI : http://www.visaa.net/cgi-bin/filemgr/fileman.cgi
SCRIPT_URL : /cgi-bin/filemgr/fileman.cgi
SERVER_ADMIN : webmaster@visaa.netSERVER_NAME : www.visaa.net
SERVER_PORT : 80SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.0
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache/1.2.4 FrontPage/3.0.3

You will probably be only able to change the permission on files created by FileMan. This is because files that you FTP are owned by your own userid, wheras files created by FileMan are owned by the webserver userid (usually 'nobody').

Cheers,

Alex

I have the same problem. Thanks for the information. I'll try it.