Help needed urgently please chmod: changing permissions not permitted

[letmelearn]

My host is about to suspend my account permanently because of an error that has occured since they upgraded their server!

The error message is:
"chmod: changing permissions of
`/hsphere/local/home/mysite.com/catalog//images/image
cache': Operation not permitted"

They are receiving thousands of these errors a day. Does anyone know how to clear this error? I found some info on another site about removing:

umask(0);
!is_dir ($cachedir)
? mkdir ($cachedir, 0777)
: system ("chmod 0777 ".$cachedir);

But I don't know which file to remove it from. Please can anyone help?

thank you
LML

[jpf]

Try deleting in FCKeditor directory

Delete /catalog/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/asp/*
Delete /catalog/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/aspx/*
Delete /catalog/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/cfm/*
Delete /catalog/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/perl/*
Delete /catalog/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/test.html

And modify
/catalog/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload.php

PHP Code:

...
 * == END LICENSE ==
 *
 * This is the "File Uploader" for PHP.
 */
 
 // Arbitrary Upload Exploit Fix
 if (strpos ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'upload.php') !== false)
 {
 die ('This file can not be used on its own.');
 }
 
 require('./config.php') ;
 require('./util.php') ;
 require('./io.php') ;
 require('./commands.php') ;
 require('./phpcompat.php') ;
... 


[letmelearn]

I found the offending code it was:
umask(0);
!is_dir ($cachedir)
? mkdir ($cachedir, 0777)
: system ("chmod 0777 ".$cachedir);

and it was in html_output.php

My host said that this code does the following:
That code is basically saying, Is it NOT a directory, if it is NOT a directory then make the directory, if it IS a directory, change its permissions. There's a couple of reasons that might 1) be failing (most likely user permissions vs apaches running user (myaccountname vs httpd)) or 2) be now logging the issue (most likely the improved PHP version or it should of been logging before).

Does anyone know if I should have this code in there or not?
Any clues greatfully receive.

Much releaved
LetMeLearn

[jpf]

Sorry - but that code does not exist in that file. Re-install or please explain WHICH file - as HTML_OUTPUT should not be creating or working with files.....

[jpf]

Also review your passwords and acess. Makesure your ADMIN is secured. I forgot you are using osCommerce fourm....