Temporary Permission commands taking too long

[Jesnar]

Hi,

I want to install an extension to my magento CE 1.9.1 and used these commands

find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;

find . -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;

However the find . -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; just returned a prompt blinking. it's been almost 24 hours already but still on the prompt and didn't return me to command prompt. Anybody knows how to deal with this problem? 

[Pronto]

How about using chmod -R go-rwx * instead? It recursively removes all privileges from group and others. And it should be WAY faster.

[Jesnar]

I'm sorry, im still new to grasping permission commands for ubuntu.

so the new command will be find . -type f -exec chmod -R go-rwx * {} \; ?

[Pronto]

Actually this is it, chmod is command, -r means recursive and go-rwx means remove all privileges from group and others. However I'm not sure what you want to achieve as 600/700 means that you're planning to establish a rather draconic permission scheme.

[Jesnar]

just wanted to install an extension and i'll bring it back to magento suggested permissions.

These are the recommended permissions

find . -type f -exec chmod 400 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 500 {} \; 
find var/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; 
find media/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
find var/ -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; 
find media/ -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;

 If i type the command find . -type f -exec chmod 400 {} \;

it just give me a blinking cursor and doesn't return to command prompt.

is there another command that doesn't freeze?

[Pronto]

These are definitely not recommend permissions. It means that either you're logged on as web server user or web server runs with your user privileges. Very bad idea either way.