problem with chmod command

permissions chmod

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Solution 1

Use this:

sudo chmod 0777 -R /var/www/

-R instead of -r.

Solution 2

Use "-R" instead of "-r".

From the chmod help:

-R, --recursive change files and directories recursively

Solution 3

Also note that the 0 will no longer clear suid/sgid/sticky in recent versions of chmod and you'll soon have to use a symbolic mode (if that's what you're intending to do).

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Santosh Linkha

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Santosh Linkha about 1 year

I don't know what is happening

experimentx@workmateX:/var/www$ sudo chmod 0777 -r /var/www/

chmod: cannot access `0777': No such file or directory

experimentx@workmateX:/var/www$

Santosh Linkha over 12 years

well thanks to you both ... but what the hell happened? I had been using -r untill now, and suddenly .. -R
Octavian A. Damiean over 12 years

There was no -r in chmod ever, there is only -R or --recursive.
Pedram over 12 years

Yeah, chmod doesn't have any -r option.
Santosh Linkha over 12 years

well, i had been doing -r until i updated my system yesterday .. on version 10.10
Pedram over 12 years

I don't know what happened in your case but chmod is one the commands that are common between all linux distributions and has nothing to the with a specific version of ubuntu.