first ever telnet session ends in disaster

now i know why you guys don't like to give shell access to people

i was trying to use chmod 666 to change a folder to writable for people to upload for a mailing list, i logged in as admin then changed to root

now none of my sites work, all you do not have permission, i cannot login via ftp, i cannot login via telnet

support is not a sunday thing, can i do anything, at the moment i have no idea what anyone can do because all the possible logins are not allowed

heeeeeeelp :)

hmmm ... that does not make sense... all you did was switch one directory to 666?

which directory was this?

Also can you access your control panel?

David

you may have changed the ownership of the folder
try this

chown <normalusername> <foldername>

with out the <>'s

The point is he cannot gain telnet or ftp access!

A bit of info we need to help is the name of the directory or directories that were affected.

i was in a folder //web/mlm one i had created myself and was attepmting to chmod to 666.

anyways i spoke to rackshack and the machine is running, from a ping, but they are locked out to. They are gonna try and reset the passwords etc.

i'll let you know what i did if i ever find out and if they fix it.

they fixed the problem, or the reboot did i think, they just closed the ticket didn't explain what the problem was.

now i have this problem, i am trying to install a php/mysql script that runs multiple e-mail lists

when a mail list admin creates an html e-mail the script automatically makes a dir to store the files in.

my problem is this, when i ftp the files in they are fine, except that i need to chmod the folder to 666, i do that by ftp also.

Once i do that the whole folder becomes 550 permission error, so i can't accesss it, delete or anything.

COuld it be something in the script that is causing this, i am lost for ideas.

thanx
matty

who own the files? It might be a file ownership permission issue

if the files are owned by root ... but the *net user* is not root so that might be causing issues

David