[Boston.pm] chmod issue

Hi,
Does anyone know of any issues with chmod? I'm trying to do the following:

chmod 0777, $file || die "That didn't work so well";

I've tried this numerous ways, and yet the file is not chmodding, nor
is the process dying. It's returning a 1, which according to the camel
book means it worked (chmod returns the number of files that were
successfully chmodded?) I think Perl honestly believes it's chmodding
the file. Any ideas?

Kate