Ubuntu acts like the CHMOD went through, but nothing really happened. This only happens in subdirectories too. IE: I have a blog installed at xxx.com and at xxx.com/community I want to put a community site. The community site has problems CHMOD'ing
Did you run the chmod on the command line, or did some script do it? You can check the permissions of a file/directory with the Code: ls -l command.
Does your script use the full path to the ls command (e.g. /bin/ls)? Maybe your script has another PATH variable then you on your terminal.