Not technically cpanel related...

[4u123]

Some time ago I had a server secured by a third party company who disabled some of the cpanel cgi scripts even though I had asked them not to. The permissions on those files show as 0000 and I am unable to change them.

What can I do ?

 

[nickn]

Some time ago I had a server secured by a third party company who disabled some of the cpanel cgi scripts even though I had asked them not to. The permissions on those files show as 0000 and I am unable to change them.

What can I do ?

Sounds like they are chattr +i'd.

Do chattr -i /home/username/path/to/file.cgi

That should let you chang permissions again.

 

[4u123]

Hi, thanks for your reply, I tried that...

[~]# chattr -i /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/formmail.pl
[~]# chmod 755 /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/formmail.pl
chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/formmail.pl': Operation not permitted

 

[PWSowner]

Are you doing that as root?

 

[Etheral]

sometimes with chattr, i find i have to run the command a few times. Just my 2 cents.

 

[4u123]

Hi,

Yes I'm running this as root and I still cant change permissions after running it several times.

Any ideas ?

 

[4u123]

Last resort - I've renamed the cgi-sys folder and run a upcp --force to reinstall the scripts.