I have a folder in the cgi-bin which is chmod 777 but there are some files which I would like to chmod 777 but can't do it for all files why?

What do you mean you can't?

You can chmod them through shell by typing.

chmod -R 777 foldername (this will chmod everything 777 with int eh folder)

Or you can manually chmod every file in cpanel by clicking on the files and picking the permission option.

I have tried that but does not work it let me to chmod 777 for some files but not every file in that folder.

Are you doing this at root?

If not, do you own the files?

It did work now I forget to put -R before.

Palm you came to the rescue again :D thank you

:)