OT: Unix/Gallery2 question

[koabi.brooks at gmail.com (Koabi Brooks)]

That nifty installer caused my problem because it makes the file owner
someone other than myself.  I found that they have a php script to change
the permission that seems to have solved my problem.

the script is located at http://yourhostnamehere/g2directory/lib/support/

On 6/26/07, Brendan Doyle <lord_verminaard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I just installed Gallery2 about a half hour ago on a hosted website with
> only ftp access.  Gallery2 has a nifty "one click" installer that does it
> all through an interactive script.  It worked beautifully.
>
> Are you using any type of FTP client?  I use FileZilla, and with it you
> can just right click on a file or folder and change the
> permissions.  Basically a chmod command only windoze-ized.  :D  (which I
> need!)   I guess I am assuming that your FTP login has admin privileges....
>
> Brendan
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Drew Mac <type53@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Koabi Brooks <koabi.brooks@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:20:30 AM
> Subject: Re: OT: Unix/Gallery2 question
>
> On 6/25/07, Koabi Brooks <koabi.brooks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Once upon a time I ran some installation scripts to put gallery2 on a
> system
> > I only have FTP access to (which is the main reason i did it via
> script).
> > Long story short, the installation becamse messed up and I have some
> data I
> > need to delete, but the owner of most of the files is "99" and not
> me.  What
> > can I do?  I assume the script created an arbitrary owner so the only
> thing
> > i can think of would be to make a script with that owner to delete the
> > files.  Too bad I'm not sure how to do that nor if i can run anything
> like
> > that on a box with FTP-only access.
>
>
> How did you install the package with only FTP access (i.e. who
> launched the script(s) for you once you uploaded them?
>
> If you're not the owner of the files, you'll have to get the owner (or
> superuser or root) to change the ownership via the chown command.
>
> But without shell access I'm not sure why you'd even want to bother,
> you will only end up frustrated.
>
>
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