Specific File Permissions

[netbuzrd]

I have been fighting getting signup-list?.cgi to work properly, and boy do I mean stuggling. Reading and re-reading all the manual, help files etc.. when I had an idea.  :idea:
While looking over the signup-list1.cgi file and scratching my head looking for anything that might make sense to me I noticed on line 31 the following "$http_program = "/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null " . $listmail_url . "/signup.php". I am no programmer by a long shot but I wondered if  there was a problem getting signup.php to work. I checked its permissions and they were 644 so I changed it to 755 and whoa and behold all the sudden my blank emails to a alias address pointed to signup-list1.cgi works. Now I receive the confirmation emails etc...
My question is this.
What are the permissions suppose to be for all the files once you have them loaded up to your server. Most if not all of mine in the root list mail folder are 644.
Thanks

[DW]

For most CGI scripts to run, from cgi-bin especially, they need to be set (CHMOD) to 755 to be executable.

Regards!

[netbuzrd]

Thank You DW
I will change them.
Your support is awsome, you answered this on a Sunday night when most people would not have taken the time until Monday or later.

Thanks Again