hi all,

I'm so embarrasingly new; apologies.

So here's my dilemma; files are being uploaded to the server via a php script... this is therefore assigning ownership to 'nobody' rather than the account 'user'.
It's screwing with the permissions and then the owner can't ftp download images that were uploaded through this script.

So what I'm trying to do is create a cron job which will at 2am run through like 4 different folders within the user's account and chmod all of the images within the folder to 644.

Here's an example of what I was told to do:

You will want to use the following commands:

From secure shell as root, run the command:
crontab -e

Then setup a cron job to run hourly with the command 'chown -R $user:$group /home/$user/public_html/$directory' with the correct values for those variables.

- end of example

My question is this... am I going to have to create a cron job for each of the four folders?

Also; in the example the guy said to have the - correct values for those variables...
So, what do I need to change in the command -
'chown -R $user:$group /home/$user/public_html/$directory'

anything with a $ ?

and if it is anything with a $ - what is the group?


thanks in advance for any assistance!