Batch Process File Righrs with Passenger?

Question

I find myself in an emergency and need to use Passenger to batch create permissions, something I have never done.
One of my elementary schools had a server crash, I used ditto to copy back all my student user folders to the hard drive but none of their file permissions are correct.
I am using Passenger version 3.5.4 and have my users folder setup off the root of the Macintosh HD in a folder called Home_Folders. So my directory structure is:
/Home_Folders/Students/
I have created a new Permission Set that I have named Students based on the MACOSX default set and edited to fit my directory structure. I have tried both:
/Home_Folders/Students/<username>
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Students/<username>
And I get the same error messages on both so none of the file rights are changed.
If anyone is familiar with this function, I would appreciate the help.
MAC Book Pro/Intel Processor Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Answer 1

Hi MacWorks,
   I don't have webalizer but I assume from your command that it has no problem with the fact that the logs are gzipped but it simply can't take more than one argument at a time. That kind of situation is one for which xargs was written. Try the following command:
ls /var/log/httpd/access_log.*.gz | xargs -n 1 ./webalizer -c my.conf
As you suggested in your post, that has to be run from the directory containing the webalizer executable but xargs will invoke webalizer once for each file which I gather you're saying is all that it can handle.
Gary
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